Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing ...

While South Carolina law defers to SCDC personnel to design the execution protocols, former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian said he believed it was a given that those selected for the firing squad ...

South Carolina Death Row Death row inmates in South Carolina are given the choice of their method of execution between lethal injection, the electric chair and the firing squad.

Mahdi was the second person to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the fifth to be executed since the state resumed executions in September 2024 following a 13 year pause. Lawyers ...

Officials in South Carolina gave remarks to the media on the firing squad execution of Mikal Mahdi, who was convicted of killing three people and numerous other "spree" crimes in 2004.

Lawyers for a South Carolina death row inmate are heading to federal court to argue that the state is not properly carrying out executions. South Carolina uses either lethal injection or the ...

Mahdi's was the second execution by firing squad in the United States this year, following that of Brad Keith Sigmon in March, also in South Carolina. Those executions marked the first by firing squad ...