A federal district court Friday denied an Alabama death row inmate’s request to delay his scheduled June 11 execution, saying ...

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 ...

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The federal government can now execute death row inmates by firing squad — a method so rarely used that only four people have died that way since the 1970s. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ...

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 ...

Thursday’s execution was blocked by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “pending further order” from the court.

Lawyers for a Tennessee death row inmate say they are concerned the state may be planning to use expired lethal injection ...

The Federal Public Defender's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee is reacting to the attempted execution of Tony ...