The Justice Department also reauthorized the use of a death penalty drug, and will seek to shorten the length of some legal ...

“It’s hurting so bad,” Byron Black said five minutes after the State of Tennessee initiated his execution last month. The 69-year-old’s anguished words echoed through the death chamber as a device ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—For Ohio to resume executions, state lawmakers would need to pass a “shield law” to prevent pharmaceutical companies from discovering that their drugs were used in lethal injections, ...

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced last week it will implement firing squad executions for federal prisoners.

The deaths of director Rob Reiner and his wife have drawn attention to California’s long and tangled history with the death penalty. Reiner, 78, and Michele Singer Reiner, 68, were found dead of stab ...

The Justice Department is bringing back firing squads and other execution methods for federal death row inmates. Could ...

An accused serial killer could face the death penalty in six slayings in Stockton and Oakland, officials said. San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas said Monday he would seek the death ...