It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some consider it a more humane ...

On Friday afternoon, the state of South Carolina carried out the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years . As a method of execution, the firing squad had been largely ...

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment, beginning ...

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad and the wooden electric chair. South ...

A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad early Friday evening – a method used for the first time in 15 years in ...

Sherrone Moore's issues before his eventual firing in early December had been mounting for a very long time, according to ...

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A South Carolina prisoner is set to be executed by firing squad Friday in the first execution of its kind in more than a decade. Brad Sigmon, 67, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2002 in the ...

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won't be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It ...

The University of Michigan made headlines for all the wrong reason just two weeks ago when it fired Sherrone Moore in the ...