US to allow firing squads, gas, and electrocution
Digest more
Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop. Alabama Gov.
The U.S. Justice Department will allow firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation for federal executions, alongside lethal injections, citing drug shortages and legal preparedness. The changes reinstate Trump-era protocols and aim to speed up ...
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, declined to give a final statement ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court said Monday it will let the nation’s third ...
Could Ohio be the next state to use nitrogen gas in executions? A new method would end a 5-year halt
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in pro-death penalty states to expand capital punishment on ...
The Justice Department has expanded federal execution protocols to include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation, citing challenges in obtaining lethal injection drugs. The move fulfills President Donald Trump’s second-term directive to ...