South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away. The curtain shrieked as it was yanked open to reveal a 67 ...

Gov. Brad Little signed a bill into law Wednesday to make Idaho the only U.S. state with a firing squad as its preferred option to end prisoners’ lives starting next year, amid lawmakers ...

PERSON AT THIS TIME. WELL, THE NEXT SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH ROW INMATE SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION HAS CHOSEN THE FIRING SQUAD. TODAY, THE DEADLINE FOR MIKAEL MOODY WAS TO DECIDE HOW HE WANTED TO BE ...

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., includes an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...

Georgia, execution by firing squad has been rare, with only four cases recorded, all previous three in Utah: Gary Mark Gilmore (Jan. 17, 1977); John Albert Taylor (Jan. 26, 1996); and Ronnie Lee ...

As Arizona prepared to carry out its first execution in three years, lawmakers debated whether to make the firing squad the official method of carrying out the death sentence. The legislation ...

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 ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment ...

Sigmon chose the firing squad out of fear of more suffering if given a lethal injection or put in the electric chair Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to execute ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday morning signed into law House Bill 37, which will make the firing ...

Five U.S. states—including South Carolina—allow executions by firing squad, though it is not the primary execution method in ...