US to allow firing squads, gas, and electrocution
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Alabama has set a June execution by nitrogen gas for a man convicted of killing two people during a 1998 robbery of a pawn shop. Alabama Gov.
The Justice Department under President Donald Trump has authorized firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation as federal execution methods, citing shortages of lethal injection drugs. The move reverses the Biden-era moratorium and follows Trump's ...
Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday evening for a killing decades ago, marking the first time the state has used the method as it resumed executions after a 15-year hiatus. Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, declined to give a final statement ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A federal appeals court said Monday it will let the nation’s third ...
Could Ohio be the next state to use nitrogen gas in executions? A new method would end a 5-year halt
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s Republican attorney general put his weight behind a legislative effort Tuesday to bring nitrogen gas executions to the state, joining what could be a national movement in pro-death penalty states to expand capital punishment on ...