Idaho governor signs bill making firing squad the state’s primary execution method - The state is considering spending $1.2m ...

Before the Nazis sent him to a forced labor camp, young Leo Lewis’ grandmother paid him one last visit. “I will not be here when you come back,” she told the boy, who had voluntarily handed himself ...

In January, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a federal court to consider whether an Oklahoma woman named Brenda Andrew should ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decision late last month to overturn Richard Glossip’s death sentence from 2004 has been met with notable public ...

A man who was serving in federal prison in Louisiana is now in Oklahoma to await execution later this year, but only because ...

Louisiana inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. has argued the state's execution protocol is undisclosed and violates his constitutional ...

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina ... Five states — Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah — authorize the use of firing squads in certain circumstances. Ronnie Gardner ...

By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Michelle Watson, CNN Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first man in 15 years to be executed by shooting and only the fourth since the death penalty was ...