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 ...

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.

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...

“It's not going to be something that gets done part way.” Four other states — Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah ...

When asked for his last words, Gilmore replied, “Let’s do it.” Five states — Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and ...

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...