South Carolina's execution of Stephen Bryant has reignited debate over the use of the firing squad, which is authorized in ...

Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil ...

The death penalty in Indiana could soon be carried out by a five-person firing squad if a newly introduced bill gains ...

State Sen. Mike Young introduced Senate Bill 11 on Thursday, Dec. 4, which aims to allow 5-man firing squads to carry out the ...

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent ...

A South Carolina killer who murdered three people in a week and taunted police with a message written in blood is set to become the third inmate in the state executed by the controversial firing squad ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says execution is ugly no matter how it is delivered, so why not select a process that is 100 percent ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina firing squad executed a man on Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, ...

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent ...

The Sun cites Indonesian prosecutors for saying, Piran Ezra Wilkinson, from Chichester in West Sussex, is charged with possessing and distributing Class A drugs. If convicted, he could face ...

A proposed bill in Indiana may introduce execution by firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection due to difficulties ...