Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death row inmates, ...

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to expand execution methods as President Donald Trump moves to speed up the process of ...

Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Vatican stance against the death penalty as several US states explore new execution methods, ...

WASHINGTON, DC: After a brief halt, attacks and counterattacks between Pope Leo XIV and President Donald Trump appear to have ...

Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole method to carry ...

Pope Leo has repeated his call for an end to the death penalty – just as Donald Trump’s administration moved to broaden ...

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One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state ...