South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

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 ...

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday for the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's ...

Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange ...

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

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 ...

Along with South Carolina, Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah authorize the firing squad as a method of execution. During firing squad executions, an inmate is typically bound to a chair while ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of the double killing of the parents of his girlfriend David and Gladys Larke in 2001 before he ...