Though Kohberger’s plea was likely to spell out how he carried out the killing, it remains unclear whether he will ever ...

Outraged family members of the slain University of Idaho students said they will fight the plea deal accepted by Bryan ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

The firing squad also meets the Supreme Court's prerequisite as a "known and available alternative," established in the landmark Glossip v. Gross case , she argues.

From colonial days through 2002, more than 15,000 people were put to death, according to data compiled by death penalty researchers M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla. Just 143 died by firing squad… ...

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing ...

The firing squad is among the country’s oldest execution methods, according to Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who studies the death penalty and execution methods.

The firing squad has a long and thorny history in the U.S. South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years.

Richard B. Moore chose a firing squad over electrocution but said both methods were unconstitutional. His execution, set for this month, would be the country’s first by firing squad since 2010.

A firing squad tried to shoot a prisoner's heart. Everyone missed. The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely caused ...