Public Executions Are Rare. Here's Where They Still Happen.

As the Pentagon plans to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter, the U.S. joins a shrinking group of countries ...
Time

Are Firing Squad Executions Seeing a Revival in the U.S.?

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How executions have risen under Trump despite states scrapping penalty

How executions have risen under Trump despite wave of states abolishing death penalty - Capital punishment carried out 47 times in 2025 and 28 times so far this year, a trend that comes despite 11 sta ...

Only 2 countries held known public executions last year. The U.S. is preparing for its first in 90 years.

The execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted in the 2009 killings of 13 people at Fort Hood, will be livestreamed, the Defense ...

Explainer-Is it legal for the US to livestream the Fort Hood shooter's execution?

The Pentagon said on Thursday that it would livestream the firing squad execution of the man who killed 13 people at the Fort ...

US plans for livestreamed execution would put it in company with few nations

The Pentagon’s plans to live-stream a military execution would put it on a very short list of nations to execute someone ...
Los Angeles Magazine

Three Executions, Three Horrific Crimes, and Three Very Different Paths to the Death Penalty

Three states executed three convicted murderers on August 13 in a rare overlap of death sentences that marked the first time in nearly 16 years that three U.S. states carried out executions on the ...