Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

The Trump administration’s confusing instructions to universities have generated a flurry of nomenclature modifications—a ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that it now seems clear lawmakers are not just being blasé about the program’s legal ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

Arkansas law bans abortion at all stages of pregnancy except when necessary to "save the life of a pregnant woman in a ...

Members of the S.C. House on Monday will start consideration of the $14.1 billion state budget, a document they’ve been reviewing for the last week or so.

Brad Sigmon, convicted of a brutal 2001 double murder, was executed by firing squad after fighting to avoid the electric chair and lethal injection.

One of the media witnesses to Friday night’s execution, the first ever in the state to use a firing squad, provided his eyewitness account.

Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.