Whether the heart is stopped by a drop or a drug, the act remains a rejection of reformative justice in favour of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s administration is directing prison officials to bring back firing squads to execute federal death row ...

Per Section 393(5) of the BNSS, executions are carried out by hanging despite the Law Commission’s 2015 recommendation of ...

April 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative methods of executing people convicted of the gravest ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department plans to expand the methods used for federal executions, including allowing firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation, as the Trump administration ...

The tangled path of US capital punishment takes a new turn on Wednesday as Idaho becomes the first state to adopt the firing squad as its primary form of execution, embracing the brutal killing ...

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session. Senate Bill 11, filed by State Sen. Michael Young, would allow for ...

The court said its ruling is the not the final word and if the Centre wishes it can constitute a committee of experts to ...

The Supreme Court has dismissed a plea seeking an alternative method of execution for death row convicts, rejecting the challenge to hanging as the prescribed mode of carrying out the death penalty.

New Delhi/IBNS, Aug. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a petition seeking to replace hanging with a less painful and more dignified method of executing the death penalty, while leaving open ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea seeking an alternative way for the execution of death row convicts on the ...