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

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.

Throughout the report, the Justice Department referenced past Supreme Court rulings in capital cases, noting that the court ...