A convicted killer in Utah who developed dementia while on death row for 37 years is competent enough to be executed, a state ...

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% ...

They shroud executions in darkness and sanitize the violence through the optics of medicine. South Carolina's firing squad chair is pictured behind its electric chair, which is covered ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two South Carolina legislators have requested an investigation into the state's firing squad execution last month after lawyers for the inmate said his autopsy showed the shots ...

The autopsy showed that the “firing squad botched the execution … with shooters missing the target area of the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death.” South Carolina had ...

A SOUTH Carolina firing squad has been accused by experts of botching the execution of a convicted cop killer, leaving him in "excruciating" pain as he bled to death. None of the bullets directly ...

WE HAVE MORE ON THIS STORY ON A man who was put to death last month in South Carolina’s second firing squad execution was conscious and likely suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute ...

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

An inmate put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and likely in extreme pain for up to a minute after the bullets missed their target, attorneys allege.

If it proceeds, Mahdi’s execution would be the latest in a recent string of events that have put the spotlight on the firing squad as a handful of US death penalty states explore alternatives to ...

If passed, Florida would join five other states that allow execution by firing squad and several others that allow nitrogen gas. Last month, Brad Keith Sigmon became the first inmate in South ...