South Carolina's execution of Stephen Bryant has reignited debate over the use of the firing squad, which is authorized in ...

The death penalty in Indiana could soon be carried out by a five-person firing squad if a newly introduced bill gains ...

Eddie Slovik made a series of decisions that turned him into the only American soldier executed for desertion since the Civil ...

Ralph Menzies was once just days away from death by firing squad. The death row inmate died of natural causes on Wednesday.

A Utah man who was spared execution this fall after developing dementia during his 37 years on death row has died of apparent natural causes.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina firing squad executed a man on Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says execution is ugly no matter how it is delivered, so why not select a process that is 100 percent ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era. But the idea of using firing squads is making a ...

A proposed bill in Indiana may introduce execution by firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection due to difficulties ...

A death row prisoner in Utah who was spared execution after developing dementia has died of apparent natural causes. Ralph ...

The Sun cites Indonesian prosecutors for saying, Piran Ezra Wilkinson, from Chichester in West Sussex, is charged with possessing and distributing Class A drugs. If convicted, he could face ...