Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

Even so, his execution would not have been particularly noteworthy except for the fact that it was carried out by firing ...

Brad Sigmon was sentenced to death in South Carolina for murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents, David and Gladys Larke. He ...

Peculiar and violent methods of execution seem to capture the public’s imagination in a way that the death penalty itself does not: A person may support capital punishment in theory but balk at the ...

A 14-year-old student at Roy J. Smith Middle School in Killeen, Texas is arrested in connection to the fatal stabbing of ...

The Christian left in the United States once wove solidarity into the fabric of social change, uniting diverse movements ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...