Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

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

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

Peculiar and violent methods of execution seem to capture the public’s imagination in a way that the death penalty itself ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad Kieth Sigmon wrote ahead of his execution.