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

Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate say they are concerned the state may be planning to use expired lethal injection ...

Oklahoma plans to resume executions by using nitrogen or another gas to starve an inmate of oxygen because it cannot obtain the drugs needed for lethal injections, state officials said on Wednesday.

Tennessee prison officials are refusing to confirm that they will not be using expired lethal injection drugs to execute Tony ...