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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Idaho ’s governor signed into law a bill Wednesday making the firing squad the state’s primary method of execution. Joan ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

A Texas appeals court has blocked the execution of David Wood just two days before he was set to be put to death by lethal ...

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has blocked the execution of convicted El Paso 'Desert Killer' David Leonard Wood, amid lack of DNA evidence.

Attorneys for Jessie Hoffman Jr. argues Louisiana is using the inmate as a test for the nitrogen method that has only been ...