Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

In a memo, the Department of Justice says the move will "strengthen" the death penalty and deter crime.

The Trump administration wants to shorten the appeals process for people sentenced to death and add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as methods of federal execution, the Department of ...

Trump DOJ brings back 17th-century execution method to ‘strengthen the death penalty’ - Justice Department is ‘standing with victims’ by reviving old-school killing methods to execute federal death ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...