A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer in South Carolina is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in the state since the death penalty resumed last fall.

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

Idaho Governor Brad Little has signed a new law-making firing squads the state’s primary method of execution. He signed House Bill 37 Wednesday morning.

Governor Brad Little has signed House Bill 37 into law, making Idaho’s primary method of execution to firing squad.

BOISE — Idaho Gov. Brad Little has signed a new law making the firing squad the state's primary method of execution.

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