South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn't been used in ...

The sustained decline of the death penalty is not explained merely by procedural problems. The death penalty’s biased ...

Four orders announcing dates of execution were also released by the Tennessee Department of Correction, which announced the ...

A federal judge has ruled against a man on Georgia’s death row who argued that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain and suggested a firing squad as an alternative. Michael Wade ...

“Unless he elected lethal injection or the firing squad, he would die in South Carolina’s ancient electric chair, which would burn and cook him alive. But the alternative is just as monstrous.

NATE SIGMUND’S LAWYER SAYS THAT HE WASN’T GIVEN A FAIR SHOT AT CHOOSING HIS METHOD OF EXECUTION BECAUSE HE HAD A LACK OF INFORMATION ABOUT LETHAL INJECTION. RIGHT. THE OPTIONS ARE TO MAKE NO ...

Mr. Sigmon — who was ordered to select his method of execution and had to choose between electrocution, lethal injection or firing squad — chose to be fatally shot because of concerns about ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, who is scheduled to be killed on March 7, informed state officials on Friday that he wishes to die by firing squad rather than by lethal injection or the electric chair ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections death chamber with the gurney used in lethal injections . South Carolina Department of Cor Richard Moore’s took deep, snoring breaths as he lay strapped ...

A Georgia death row inmate who fatally shot a man while fleeing from a bank robbery in Gwinnett County cannot be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection, a federal judge in Atlanta ...