South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

Arizona voters may become the first in the nation to authorize executions by firing squad. If so, we also should be willing ...

Arizona voters may become the first in the nation to authorize executions by firing squad. If so, we also should be willing ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

Five states authorize the firing squad as an execution method. Arizona could join the ranks if lawmakers decide to send the matter to voters in 2026.

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

Shooting prisoners to death has consequences for the reputation of the state,” a national death penalty expert said.

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

The three other firing squad executions happened in Utah. Sigmon’s legal team said the choice of firing squad was not easy but felt it was the least inhumane.