No. South Dakota used hanging and the electric chair before its first lethal injection execution in 2007. The state adopted ...

Trump’s DoJ says it is taking steps to ‘strengthen the federal death penalty’ in opposition to Biden-era policies ...

President Donald Trump’s administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest federal crimes, it announced ...

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

Oklahoma carried out the nation’s first execution of the year on Thursday, administering the state’s third lethal injection since the end of a six-year halt over botched procedures. Donald Grant, 46, ...

The Justice Department announced Friday it would readopt the death penalty protocols for lethal injection and firing squads.