Arizona lawmakers are putting the ball in your court. This November, voters could be asked whether they want to bring back ...

Firing squads have returned to the headlines this week, as Utah took steps toward allowing that method of execution if other ...

Republican lawmakers are letting citizens make more laws at the ballot box. Would you give Death Row inmates the option of a ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House has voted to add the firing squad to the state's execution methods amid a lack of lethal injection drugs. The chamber's 66-43 vote Wednesday is one of ...

Lawmakers at the statehouse debated the use of firing squads for state executions. A bill that would have authorized a firing squad to carry out the death penalty in Indiana failed to pass out of the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina firing squad executed a man on Friday, the third person to die by that method in the state this year. Three prison employees, all with live ammunition, ...

All eyes are on California’s political heavyweights to intervene and put an end to the “circular firing squad” that is the gubernatorial primary. Earlier this week, California Democratic Party Chair ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 9 - Justice Minister Carlo Nordio's Chief of Staff Giusi Bartolozzi has caused a storm in the March 22-23 justice reform referendum campaign by calling the judiciary a firing squad ...