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 ...

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.

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 ...

The execution was due to occur next week at Louisiana State Penitentiary. Hoffman, 46 — who was convicted of the 1996 rape and murder of a New Orleans woman — is a Buddhist, NBC News reports.

The theory behind the execution method is that changing the composition of the air to 100 per cent nitrogen would deprive the person of the oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions.

The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010. Brad Sigmon is set to be put to death by firing squad in South Carolina, raising questions about its continued use.

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” ...

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.