Tennessee’s governor granted a one-year stay of execution for Tony Carruthers after his lethal injection was halted Thursday ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will adopt firing squads as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases, officials said ...

Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers avoids execution after officials fail to find vein - Carruthers would have been the first person executed after being forced to represent himself in over a c ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump took the unusual step on Friday of thanking the Iranian government for not following through on executions of what he said was meant to be hundreds of ...

Amnesty International’s 2025 report on the global use of the death penalty finds that executions have surged to their highest recorded number in over 40 years, driven largely by the expanded use of ...

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

The number of recorded death-penalty executions last year was 2,707, a 78% increase compared to the previous year, according ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice examined using fentanyl in lethal injections as it prepared last year to resume executing condemned prisoners, a then untested use of the powerful, ...