The move brings back pentobarbital for lethal injection and explicitly clears the way for executions by firing squad, ending a moratorium that had paused federal executions and instructing the Bureau of Prisons to get ready to use multiple methods once appeals are finished.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very rarely in modern day United States: execution by firing ...

The Arizona Senate passed a measure that would let voters decide whether to allow firing squads as a death penalty option. The proposal comes after a history of problematic executions in the state using lethal injection and the gas chamber. If approved ...

The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Photo courtesy of the Utah State Department of Corrections) A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The event organized by One Rises and Death Penalty Action is scheduled for Tuesday, just before the upcoming deadline, following the state's law designating the firing squad as its main ...

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 allowed alongside lethal injection to carry about ...