Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a bill on Wednesday making death by firing squad the preferred method for executions, and death ...

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

I've now watched through glass and bars as 11 men were put to death at a South Carolina prison. None of the previous 10 ...

A South Carolina man convicted of a double murder is set to be executed by firing squad, marking the first use of this method ...

Gov. Brad Little signed House Bill 37 into law on Wednesday, making Idaho the only state to use a firing squad as its primary ...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

In 2023, Idaho passed a law to allow firing squads for executions. But that law only allowed firing squads as a back-up execution method when lethal injection – the primary execution method in Idaho ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

The action comes on the heels of the first U.S. execution by firing squad in nearly 15 years last week in South Carolina.

marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history and the first in the U.S. since 2010. Sigmon was strapped to a specially made chair and had a hood over his head while three ...

House Bill 37 doesn't go into effect until July 1, 2026. Bill sponsor Rep. Bruce Skaug, R-Nampa, has said that will give the ...