As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid search for “better” execution methods. It comes amid concern over ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad in the first use of the method ... injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating his ex ...

Idaho hasn’t executed a death row prisoner since June 2012, and just two in more than 30 years. The Idaho Legislature just passed a bill that would make the firing squad the primary method of ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who gruesomely killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Friday – the first execution of its ...

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid search for "better" execution methods. It comes amid concern over ...

The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 in Utah. By Eduardo Medina A South Carolina man on death row has chosen death by firing squad as his method of execution ...

Death by firing squad has been used as an execution method for nearly as long as firearms have existed, and it is still used by countries around the world, Deborah Denno, a Fordham University law ...

His lawyer, Gerald “Bo” King, said in a statement that Sigmon's death was "horrifying and violent." "He chose the firing squad knowing that three bullets would shatter his bones and destroy ...

One of Sigmon’s attorneys, Gerald “Bo” King, said shortly after the execution that his client’s “death was horrifying and violent.” “He chose the firing squad knowing that three ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth inmate in the U.S. to die by this execution method. Brad Sigmon, 67, who is ...

Just three inmates - in Utah in 1977, 1996 and 2010 - have faced a firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Reporters, family members of Sigmon's victims and his ...