I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state ...

If his execution proceeds, Mahdi will be the second South Carolinian to die by firing squad in the last 40 days, following ...

A second death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen execution by firing squad. It comes just weeks after the first ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.

An Arizona man who kidnapped and murdered his girlfriend's ex-husband was executed Wednesday, the second of four prisoners ...

Inside a state prison building, witnesses watched Arizona execute Aaron Gunches without the troubles of the past.

Kiera Riley, courts and education reporter for the Arizona Capitol Times, reports on the execution of Aaron Gunches as his ...

In the lethal injection chamber, media witnesses said they saw a restraint team secure his body to a gurney without incident.

Last year, a new execution method was used in the U.S. for the first time since 1982. Here’s a look at how people have been ...