Idaho governor signs bill making firing squad the state’s primary execution method - The state is considering spending $1.2m ...

Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here when you come back,” she told the boy, who had voluntarily handed himself ...

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision late last month to overturn Richard Glossip’s death sentence from 2004 has been met with notable public ...

Oklahoma law says anyone who has ever scored 76 or higher on an IQ test is competent to die for their crime. Science says otherwise.

A man who was serving in federal prison in Louisiana is now in Oklahoma to await execution later this year, but only because ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina ... Five states — Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah — authorize the use of firing squads in certain circumstances. Ronnie Gardner ...

In Mississippi and Oklahoma, the firing squad option is available “if ... South Carolina has 28 other inmates on death row, ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first man in 15 years to be executed by shooting and only the fourth since the death penalty was ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.