Arizona lawmakers are considering HCR 2024, a bill that would allow voters to decide whether to make firing squads the primary method of execution. Proponents argue that firing squads are more ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

As Arizona prepares to execute Aaron Gunches ... Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, wants to round up a firing squad. It’s a genius idea – or half of one. Bullets, after all, are so much ...

If two more executions proceed as planned before the end of June—one each in Florida and Mississippi—the same number of ...

Arizona Department of Corrections ... On March 7, Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia South Carolina. The 67-year-old Sigmon, the ...

and I have no idea how airing this dirty laundry accomplishes either of those goals,” said longtime Arizona Democratic strategist Stacy Pearson. “This public circular firing squad is ...

Finally, those sentiments were echoed last March when two Arizona legislators introduced a resolution asking that the state’s voters be allowed to vote to approve firing squads as the primary ...

With more states having adopted the firing squad — and others such as Arizona considering its use — the stigma associated with this method has decreased, said Denno. She said people are also ...

Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona and Texas have executed men by lethal injection, while South Carolina has used both the firing squad and lethal injection. Mahdi admitted he killed Orangeburg Public ...

Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona and Texas have executed men by lethal injection, while South Carolina has used both the firing squad and lethal injection. At 6 p.m. Friday, the curtain will ...