Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Vivian Lovingood protests the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. For the first time in 15 years a death row inmate in the U.S. will ...

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Mikal Mahdi murdered an off-duty police officer by shooting him eight times and dousing him in diesel before setting him ...

Mahdi, 41, had the choice of dying by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. He will be the first inmate to be ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

No South Carolina governor has offered clemency in the 47 executions in the state since the death penalty resumed in the United States in 1976.

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...