Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Efforts to legalize execution by firing squad in Indiana are stalled after the House failed to pass legislation that would allow ...

Once again, Arizona stands at a crossroad in its often-troubled history with capital punishment. Republican state legislators have proposed expanding the state’s methods of execution to include lethal ...

INDIANAPOLIS (INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE) — A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short of the required constitutional ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

Arizona Republicans are advancing a proposal to bring back firing squad executions, including as a mandatory option for those ...

South Carolina is set to execute a death row inmate by firing squad on Friday, a first for the state and the first firing squad execution in the U.S. in 15 years.

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, ...

A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House this week, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation could still be ...