Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Just three inmates — in Utah in 1977, 1996 and 2010 — have faced a firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. South Carolina to execute killer Brad Sigmon by ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

Just three inmates — in Utah in 1977, 1996 and 2010 — have faced a firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. South Carolina to execute killer Brad Sigmon by ...

Supporters of Brad Sigmon and anti-death penalty activists gathered outside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina on March 7, 2025 to protest Sigmon’s execution ...

Just three inmates — in Utah in 1977, 1996 and 2010 — have faced a firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. South Carolina to execute killer Brad Sigmon by ...

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

State officials maintain the method is constitutional. Mahdi's was the second execution by firing squad in the United States this year, following that of Brad Keith Sigmon in March, also in South ...