Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

Murderer Brad Kieth Sigmon was shot dead by a three-person firing squad, after calling for an end to the death penalty.

BOISE, Idaho — Death by firing squad could become Idaho's primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor's desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. occurred in Utah in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed for a 1984 ...

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad on March 7, the first such execution in the state and the first in the nation in 15 years. But firearms experts are questioning whether South ...

BOISE — Death by firing squad could become Idaho's primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor's desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will ...

The firing squad, a method of execution with a long and complex history in the United States, is set to be used for the first time in 15 years in South Carolina. On Friday, Brad Sigmon ...

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will take ...

In modern times, some consider it a more humane alternative to lethal injection. The firing squad has a long and thorny history in the U.S. Since 1608, at least 144 civilian prisoners have been ...