A federal judge on Thursday ruled that execution by nitrogen gas does not violate the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual ...

On April 24, 2026 the U.S. Department of Justice said that it was strengthening the federal death penalty by, among other things, reintroducing firing squads as an execution method. According to a ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has reinstated lethal injection with pentobarbital and added firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation for federal executions, reversing Biden-era ...

April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a ...

The US Justice Department (DOJ) has announced plans to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution. It announced it would ’expand the protocol to include additional manners of execution such ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row prisoners, reviving an execution method that hasn’t been used by the U.S.

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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it ...