The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.

The U.S. Supreme Court had denied Broadnax's final appeal to temporarily stop his execution and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did ...

The Florida execution of James Hitchcock for the 1976 rape and murder of 13-year-old Cynthia Driggers was carried out April ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joshua Rocha was sentenced to death by lethal injection on Monday after he was found guilty of ...

Chadwick "Khalil" Willacy was executed by the State of Florida for a 1990 murder, despite legal challenges alleging the state ...

The Justice Department has reauthorized pentobarbital lethal injections and added firing squads as permitted federal ...

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

The British wife of a rapper sentenced to death in the US screamed ‘I love you’ through the glass as her husband’s execution ...

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...