The execution by lethal injection of an inmate on death row in the US state of Tennessee was halted after medical staff were unable to find a vein. Tony Carruthers, 57, was scheduled to be put to ...

Two executions on May 14 were the first in a series of five scheduled across the country over eight days.

Death row inmate Tony Carruthers was in pain as the executioners tried to find a vein and there was "lots of blood," one of ...

The Justice Department has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to expand the number of ways inmates on federal death row could be executed, including adding firing squads and gas asphyxiation. The move is a ...

The number of death row inmates from Brevard County has dropped from 12 to three over the last decade. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has increased the pace of executions, with 19 inmates executed in 2025.

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.

Idaho’s prison system will have a team of riflemen ready to go by the time a state law on using firing squads for the death penalty takes effect this summer.

America is returning to firing squad executions after failing to find a more humane way to carry out the death penalty.