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

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

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 ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

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