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, ...

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

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, died Saturday at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, "from natural causes as a ...

Christopher Sepulvado, 81, was scheduled to die by nitrogen gas in March. His death by natural causes compels America to ...

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 died Saturday his lawyers announced. He had been given an execution date in ...

Arizona lawmakers consider reinstating the firing squad as a death penalty method because of issues with lethal injections.

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 ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared an overview of the protocols ahead of the state's first firing squad ...

Sepulvado was Louisiana's oldest prisoner on death row at 81. "The idea that the State was planning to strap this tiny, frail ...