A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...

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

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, Sigmon forced the State of South Carolina to put this power on full and ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.