As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.
A killer on death row has become the first US prisoner in 15 years to be executed by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, 67, was granted permission to choose the manner of his execution after comlaining he ...
A death row inmate in Louisiana scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more humane method ...
Death row inmates in the state can choose how they ... Firing squads may also have been used by the military during the American Revolution and the War of 1812, but the bulk of these ...
Dozens of death row inmates sentenced under the same flawed ... where a head injury from a fall ended his military career. Every month, a government disability check for $133 arrives at his ...
South Carolina has 28 other inmates on death row, according to state records. CNN’s John Fritze, Shawn Nottingham and Jessica Jordan contributed to this report.
A federal appeals court tossed Brittany Holberg's death sentence after it found that prosecutors failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant.