During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

The executions of Steven Nelson in Texas and Demetrius Frazier in Alabama come in the context of the Trump administration’s ...

Despite no support for claims that it is a more humane method of execution, Arkansas is looking at using nitrogen gas to kill inmates.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed in two weeks has chosen to die by firing squad. If the state respects the choice, he will be the first person in South Carolina’s ...

The political feud between Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and the state's high-profile state superintendent, Ryan Walters, is the ...

The others are South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah and Mississippi ... Skaug provided $750,000 to IDOC to renovate its existing execution chamber to accommodate a firing squad. But a recent estimate ...

Frazier spent his final hours visiting with his mother, sister and attorneys. He requested a final meal from Taco Bell, ...

Bills must advance out of committee in their chamber of origin by March 6 ... execution dates and create a task force to study Oklahoma’s execution practices. The five-member Death Penalty ...