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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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

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

A reporter who witnessed Brad Sigmon's death behind a bullet-proof window noted that it would be 'etched' in his mind forever ...

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 ...

Murderer Brad Kieth Sigmon was shot dead by a three-person firing squad, after calling for an end to the death penalty.

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

A summary of recent US news includes South Carolina's firing squad execution, Trump facing constitutional challenges over law ...