Senate Bill 11 was introduced as lethal injection drugs have become more expensive and hard to get, leading some states to ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state officials are pushing for an alternative: the firing squad. Lethal injection ...

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The South Carolina House voted Wednesday, May 5, to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs—a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that ...

INDIANAPOLIS — In October, Indiana is scheduled to execute Roy Lee Ward for raping and murdering 15-year-old Stacy Payne in 2001. Ward waited for Payne’s parents to leave their home for work on July ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim’s blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Union government to consider whether a condemned prisoner could be given the option of choosing between hanging and lethal injection, observing that methods of ...