Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...

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

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 ...

The Justice Department is bringing back firing squads and other execution methods for federal death row inmates. Could Florida do the same?

The Justice Department said Friday that it was moving to expand the execution methods used to carry out federal death sentences beyond lethal injections, including by making firing squads and electric ...

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...

Rep. Jim Lucas, R-Seymour, listens to a bill on March 31, 2025. (Photo by Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House ...