Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

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

One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw.

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

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

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

A South Carolina man convicted of brutally murdering a couple in 2001 was executed by firing squad Friday, becoming the first ...

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

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

Executions by firing squad are permitted in five states, but the new law will make Idaho the only state in which death by ...

Idaho will become the only state to fatally shoot death row inmates as its main execution method. Idaho Gov. Brad Little on ...