The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

Firing squads are making a comeback as a form of capital punishment for those on federal death row. WRIC reporter Sara Molina has reaction from a legal expert to the controversial practice. More ...

The Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee voted to advance two bipartisan bills that would eliminate the death penalty in the state and replace existing death sentences with life imprisonment without ...

In 2023, Florida enacted two laws that broadened capital punishment sentencing. One lowered the threshold from requiring a unanimous jury vote of 12 to 0 to a vote of 8 to 4 — the lowest in the ...

Attorney General Bill Barr said Thursday the federal government will resume capital punishment and will move forward with plans to execute five inmates on death row for the first time in more than 15 ...

Executions are on the rise in the United States. After creeping upward since the coronavirus pandemic, when the country's use of the death penalty reached a historic low, the numbers have skyrocketed ...