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

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

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

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

The Idaho Legislature widely approved the bill. Only three Republican state lawmakers joined all 15 Democratic lawmakers to ...

Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

Brad Sigmon was sentenced to death in South Carolina for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David and Gladys Larke. He ...

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.