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

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...

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

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

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the ...

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 ...

Tulsa Sen. Dave Rader said evidence convinced him that innocent people have been sentenced to death in Oklahoma. A years-long moratorium had previously been ordered by former Gov. Mary Fallin. #okleg ...

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...