The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people as possible.

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is trying to restart executions by dusting off the electric chair after going nearly 10 years without putting a condemned inmate to death. A House Committee voted 14-7 ...

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

Trump's DOJ announced last week it is bringing the practice back to federal death row. Death penalty critics are concerned ...

WASHINGTON — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is still deciding whether he will approve a bill passed by the General Assembly to make death row inmates die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs ...

Tennessee has decided to bring back the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill into law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event the state is ...

An execution is set to take place next month as convicted killer Andrew Lukehart is sentenced to be put to death via the ...

The state of Tennessee denied a condemned man's desire to die in the electric chair, claiming he waited too long to make his macabre selection — but an appeals court late Wednesday stayed his ...

Florida has executed 19 people in 2025, a new state record set under Gov. Ron DeSantis. The number of executions in Florida this year is nearly four times higher than any other state. DeSantis has ...