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.

South Carolina on March 7 carried out the first U.S. execution by firing squad in 15 years.

A federal judge temporarily blocked Louisiana's first execution in 15 years after lawyers for the man argued nitrogen hypoxia ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat to death ...

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

Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.

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 ...

Measure makes firing squad Idaho’s primary method of execution, but won’t take effect until July 1, 2026, to allow time for ...