U.S. Death Penalty Resurfaces as States Revive Execution Methods

Multiple individuals face execution including Melissa Lucio, a mother of 14 with disputed conviction; Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, after 30 years in solitary confinement; and Richard Moore scheduled for April 29, 2022.

Across several American states, the machinery of capital punishment is stirring again — not in the familiar form of lethal injection, but through methods long thought abandoned: the electric chair, the firing squad. Pharmaceutical companies, unwilling to supply execution drugs, have forced states into a grim improvisation, reviving instruments of death that courts and societies had largely set aside. The cases now moving toward resolution — a man choosing between bullets and electricity, a mother whose confession may have been coerced, an aging man broken by decades of solitary — ask not merel

U.S. Death Penalty Resurfaces as States Revive Execution Methods

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