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

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

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

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the ...

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

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

Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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.