This year, six men have been executed with additional executions scheduled in multiple states for the rest of 2025.

Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want the state Supreme Court to stop his execution, ...

Five states authorize the firing squad as an execution method. Arizona could join the ranks if lawmakers decide to send the ...

Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years. Since the ...

For the first time in its modern history, South Carolina has executed a prisoner by firing squad. WFAE’s Tommy Tomlinson, in ...

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, ...

The most recent U.S. execution took place Friday, when Brad Sigmon, 67, died by firing squad in South Carolina. Sigmon, who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001, was the ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

Marcia Fulton with photos of her daughter Desiree Wheatley in the living room of her West El Paso home. Brad Keith Sigmon on ...