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

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

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

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

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who recently became the first person in the United States to be executed by a firing ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.

Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, marking the first time that execution ...

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...

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

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.