Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will take ...

Mississippi hasn’t been able to acquire the execution drugs it once used, and it last carried out an execution in 2012. The state has 47 people on death row , and some have been there for decades.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976, states have used five different execution methods: lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging.

Ahead of his execution this evening, Mahdi was given a choice between lethal injection, the electric chair or the firing squad. The death row inmate opted for the firing squad, which is just the fifth ...

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

Brad Keith Sigmon, 64, is set to be executed on March 7 and has selected firing squad as his method of execution. He was sentenced to death in a 2001 double murder in Greenville County. Gerald “Bo” ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Death by firing squad could become Idaho's primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor's desk this week.