"In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong — it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on ...

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 14 other people are scheduled to be executed in eight ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little has designated the firing squad as the state's primary execution method, effective July 1, 2026.

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

Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...