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

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

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

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 ...

Firing squads have a long history in the U.S., dating back to 1608, though they have been rarely used in modern times.

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

A South Carolina man convicted of brutally murdering a couple in 2001 was executed by firing squad Friday, becoming the first ...

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid ...

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a bat, will become the first person ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...

In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...

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