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 ...

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The next South Carolina death row inmate set to be executed – a killer in a case with ties to Augusta – has selected lethal injection as the method after his lawyers said he was ...

Idaho’s prison system will have a team of riflemen ready to go by the time a state law on using firing squads for the death penalty takes effect this summer.

BOISE, Idaho — Advocates are attempting to stop renovations on an Idaho jail that officials hope to convert into a designated location for firing squad executions. At an event scheduled for Tuesday, ...

The US Justice Department (DOJ) has announced plans to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution. It announced it ...

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President Donald Trump directed the DOJ to resume seeking executions on his first day in office last year.

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit.