The U.S. Department of Justice is reintroducing firing squads, electrocution, and other methods for federal executions. This policy change follows a day-one executive order from President Donald Trump ...

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

Complications with lethal injections in recent years have led to the revival of execution methods that had been previously abandoned.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday it will bring back the use of firing squads and electric chairs for some death penalty cases, as well as “readopting” the use of lethal injections as used ...

On April 24, 2026 the U.S. Department of Justice said that it was strengthening the federal death penalty by, among other things, reintroducing firing squads as an execution method. According to a ...

Often, at holiday gatherings, the children will gather around me and say, "Grandpa, tell us about firing squads." And I do. Sometimes I tell them about Gary Gilmore who, right before his 1977 ...

Data from the Death Penalty Information Center lists close to 2,100 prisoners on death row across the country including Dylann Roof, who killed nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in ...

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.

Idaho’s prison system is pursuing a remote-operated system for firing squad executions as the state builds toward becoming the first in the U.S. with it as the primary method for carrying out the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The US Department of Justice announced Friday that it plans to revive the firing ...