Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Firing squads have returned to the headlines this week, as Utah took steps toward allowing that method of execution if other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very ...

A South Carolina firing squad has executed Stephen Bryant, 44, on Friday, making him the third person to die by this method in the state this year. Bryant, who was condemned for killing three people ...

South Carolina is set to execute a death row inmate by firing squad on Friday, a first for the state and the first firing squad execution in the U.S. in 15 years.

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, ...

Mikal Mahdi was killed last month by prison officials, but autopsy results indicated that executioners did not follow ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. Arizona ...