Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, Sigmon forced the State of South Carolina to put this power on full and ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

If all executions scheduled through March 20 take place, nine people will have been executed in the first three months of the ...

A Texas appeals court has halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die ...

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

The Louisiana attorney general's office has filed an emergency brief with the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a scheduled execution for next week.

Idaho’s governor signed into law a bill Wednesday making the firing squad the state’s primary method of execution. Joan ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho is set to have a new primary form of execution for death row inmates. On Wednesday, Governor Brad Little signed House Bill 37 into effect, making death by firing squad the ...

Aaron Gunches is scheduled to be executed on March 19. He asked for two nonlegal witnesses to be present for his execution. Arizona said "no." ...