By Jonathan Allen April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted ...

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row prisoners, reviving an execution method that hasn’t been used by the U.S.

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

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 ...

The Justice Department also said it was reviving a lethal injection protocol used during President Donald Trump’s first term.

The US Justice Department has reintroduced the firing squad as an execution method, reflecting a shift in federal death ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

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