The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

Pope Leo said “the death penalty is inadmissible” and he supports anyone trying to abolish it in the U.S.

The Department of Justice announced Friday it is moving to “strengthen” the federal death penalty, including by bringing back firing squads. The DOJ in a press release said it is “readopting the ...

AMY GOODMAN: Sister Helen Prejean, you have the Trump administration announcing plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation to its arsenal of methods to execute federal prisoners on ...

Idaho’s prison system will have a team of riflemen ready to go by the time a state law on using firing squads for the death ...

The Trump DOJ blamed President Joe Biden's administration for what they say were "extraordinary steps to weaken, delay, and ...

President Donald Trump has told the DOJ to seek the death penalty in more cases, the department said, and acting Attorney ...

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 announced ...

The federal government is moving to bring back death by firing squad. Let that sit for a second. This isn’t just about how ...

"Mississippi is not it." ...