The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Courtesy of the Utah State Department of Corrections) As the days tick down to ...

Outside the gates of South Carolina’s Broad River Correction Institution on Friday, March 7, 2025, anti-death penalty activist Hillary Taylor read a yellow highlighted passage from a well-worn Bible ...

A barrage of bullets tore into Ronnie Lee Gardner's chest where a target was pinned over his heart. Two minutes later an ashen Gardner, blood pooling in his dark blue jumpsuit, was pronounced dead at ...

A Greenville man will be the first person in the United States to die by firing squad in nearly 15 years. Brad Sigmon is set to be executed March 7 at 6 p.m. in the Broad River Correctional Facility ...

South Carolina will execute a man by firing squad for the second time in two months on Friday, when Mikal Mahdi is scheduled to die. Before Brad Sigmon was executed at a state prison in Columbia on ...

Donald Trump and other Republican figures are pushing for the death penalty if Tyler Robinson is convicted of assassinating Charlie Kirk. There's a long road ahead before Kirk's murder case could end ...