After 15 years without a single firing squad execution in the US, Mikal Mahdi is set to become the second in two months.

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to ...

Paul “Greg” House, who spent more than two decades on Tennessee's death row before he was finally freed, has died.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Bruce Ward, a convicted murderer who was the longest-serving inmate on Arkansas’ death row, has died ...