South Carolina plans to execute Mikal Mahdi on Friday for the murder of a police officer, draping a hood over his head and ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

Mahdi’s scheduled execution comes soon after the nation’s first firing squad execution in 15 years, which South Carolina carried out on March 7. Five days later, Idaho’s Republican governor ...

Gov. Little signed a law allowing individuals convicted of sexually abusing children 12 and younger to be sentenced with the ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

Five states − South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method but Mahdi's will only be the fifth such execution since 1977.

Police in Idaho released body-worn and security camera recordings Thursday showing officers fatally shooting a knife-wielding ...

The state of Idaho recently passed a bill that was signed into law that would expand the death penalty to pedophiles. It also became the first state in the union to make a firing squad its preferred ...

Victor Perez had autism, cerebral palsy and was nonverbal, though there is no indication the responding officers were aware of that.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the ...

If convicted of the Idaho student murders, Bryan Kohberger may be given the death penalty. In Idaho, that now means death by ...