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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 ...

The U.S. government should add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, the Department of Justice said on Friday in a ...

Time is running out in the fight to stop the execution of a convicted killer. James Broadnax, 37, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on April 30 for a 2008 double murder outside a music studio in ...

Donald Trump‘s Justice Department announced on Friday that it is bringing back firing squads as a method to execute people sentenced to death. Fox News was the first to report on the Justice ...

A Florida man is scheduled for execution next month after his conviction in the killing of his cousin's girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter under a death warrant signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...

Florida executed Chadwick Willacy, 58, by lethal injection on Tuesday, April 21, at Florida State Prison near Starke for the horrific 1990 murder of his next-door neighbor, Marlys Sather. Willacy was ...

About a week before she was murdered, Marlys Mae Sather spent one last joyful day with her loved ones. It was her son John's 32nd birthday and the family had gathered at his Orlando-area home. The ...

David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

A teenage couple allegedly killed a high school senior execution-style over an unproven rumor he raped someone, cops have suggested. Cassandra Michael and Byron Rangel chatted about the allegation ...

(London, April 15, 2026) – The Singaporean government should immediately halt the execution of Omar bin Yacob Bamadhaj, scheduled for April 16, 2026, for trafficking cannabis, Human Rights Watch, ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Life in prison without parole is the sentence for a man found guilty in the execution-style murder of a 25-year-old victim. Djaune Ferguson learned his fate Tuesday after ...