CHICAGO (AP) — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era. But the idea of using firing squads is making a ...

More than 1,600 people have been put to death in the U.S. in the last half-century. Only three have been by firing squad. South Carolina is set to make it four Friday evening when it is scheduled to ...

States are moving in sharply different directions on the death penalty, with some looking to broaden when and how executions ...

A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution for Nov. 14, becoming the third this year to ...

A man on death row in South Carolina has chosen to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant will be the third inmate in the state ...