Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very ...

Americans on the verge of execution could be again asking for a blindfold and cigarette soon. With the Justice Department rejiggering its death codes, lethal injections could give way to firing squads ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era. But the idea of using firing squads is making a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Republican lawmakers are letting citizens make more laws at the ballot box. Would you give Death Row inmates the option of a ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Senate Bill 11, authored by Republican Sen. Michael Young, would let death row inmates request a firing squad if lethal injection is unavailable. The bill’s first reading is ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana could bring back firing squads as a backup for executions under a new bill introduced in the state Senate. Sen. Mike Young (R-Indianapolis) filed Senate Bill 11, which would let ...

After an attempt to add firing squads to Indiana law stalled in the Senate, a House panel Wednesday passed a bill expanding the state’s execution methods. Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be ...

A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to three murders is to be put to death by firing squad on Friday, the third such execution in the southern US state this year. Stephen Bryant, 44, was convicted ...