A Costa Rican court has ordered the state electricity company and the Ministry of Environment to implement measures to prevent wildlife electrocutions on uninsulated power lines. The ruling follows a campaign by conservation groups after hundreds of animals, primarily howler monkeys, were electrocuted in 2025.
Madhya Pradesh has lost 32 tigers in the first five months of 2026, with electrocution from illegal wire traps and canine distemper virus being major threats outside and inside protected areas, respectively.
A tragic accident on the IIT-Patna campus claimed the life of 21-year-old BTech student Sadasivuni Harshith Patnaik. While retrieving a cricket ball, he was electrocuted by a live electric pole. Harshith, a dual degree student at IIM Bombay, had returned to attend his batchmates' farewell. The institute expressed deep sorrow and is investigating the incident.
The US Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand execution methods to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution, alongside lethal injection. The memo released Friday aims to strengthen the death penalty for the most serious crimes, ensuring executions can proceed even if specific drugs are unavailable. The move reverses Biden-era policies, with former President Biden having granted clemency to 37 of 40 federal death row prisoners before leaving office.
The Justice Department announced it will re-adopt lethal injection and expand execution methods to include firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation for federal death penalty cases. The policy reverses Biden's pause on federal executions and comes after Trump pledged to vigorously pursue the death penalty. Only three federal inmates remain on death row after Biden commuted 37 sentences in December 2024.
The Justice Department announced Friday that the US will re-adopt firing squads, electrocution, and gas asphyxiation as execution methods for the worst federal offenses, expanding beyond lethal injection. The policy readopts the protocol from Trump's first term and streamlines processes to expedite death penalty cases after inmates exhaust appeals. This reverses Biden's pause on federal executions, though only three federal inmates remain on death row after Biden commuted 37 sentences in December 2024. Public support for the death penalty has declined to 52%, and the US remains the only country in the Americas actively carrying out executions.
The US Department of Justice has directed federal prisons to expand execution methods to include firing squads, gas asphyxiation and electrocution, supplementing lethal injection. The memo aims to ensure executions can proceed even if specific drugs are unavailable. Former President Biden had granted clemency to 37 of 40 federal death row prisoners before leaving office, while Trump ended a 20-year federal execution moratorium in his first term and signed an executive order in January 2025 resuming death penalty pursuit.
The Trump Justice Department said on Friday it was seeking to expand the use of the death penalty in federal capital cases and add the firing squad, electrocution and gas to lethal injection as methods of execution. “The prior administration failed in its duty to protect the American people by refusing to pursue and carry out the ultimate punishment against the most dangerous criminals, including terrorists, child murderers, and cop killers,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said. Under US...
