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

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 Supreme Court on Monday in Whitton v. Dixon sided with a death row inmate for the second time in less than a week, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...

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.

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...