Even so, his execution would not have been particularly noteworthy except for the fact that it was carried out by firing squad. Before Sigmon, no one had been put to death that way in the past 15 ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad Kieth Sigmon wrote ahead of his execution.

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

Peculiar and violent methods of execution seem to capture the public’s imagination in a way that the death penalty itself ...

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...