The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history
South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...
Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods
South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...
He died before Louisiana could execute him, and he might not be the last
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled to die by nitrogen gas in March. His death by natural causes compels America to ...
Louisiana's oldest death row inmate dies less than month before execution date
Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...
81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution
He died Saturday, just over three weeks before he was scheduled to be put to death for his young stepson’s murder in what ...
Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado dies before execution date
Louisiana death row inmate Christopher Sepulvado died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in ...
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Arizona Considers Firing Squads for Executions Amid Lethal Injection Issues
Arizona lawmakers consider reinstating the firing squad as a death penalty method because of issues with lethal injections.
Louisiana Is Restarting Executions for the First Time in 15 Years. Will Other States Follow?
Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...
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Elderly Louisiana death row prisoner dies ahead of scheduled execution date at Angola
Sepulvado was Louisiana's oldest prisoner on death row at 81. "The idea that the State was planning to strap this tiny, frail ...
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81-year-old death row inmate dies weeks before his scheduled execution
An 81-year-old Louisiana death row inmate died Saturday ... execution protocol that includes nitrogen hypoxia, a new execution method it adopted last year. The method – which in Louisiana ...