SC inmate to die by firing squad. Is the 'barbaric' method making a comeback?

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say ...

Arizona voters may decide on firing squads and vaccine mandates on November ballot

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

Would you vote for a firing squad?

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

'A remarkable development': States expanding their execution methods to firing squad, more

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...
Arizona Mirror

Arizona could ask voters to allow firing squad executions under GOP proposal

Arizona Republicans are advancing a proposal to bring back firing squad executions, including as a mandatory option for those ...
Opinion

Arizona’s firing squad bill is a step backward, not a solution

Once again, Arizona stands at a crossroad in its often-troubled history with capital punishment. Republican state legislators have proposed expanding the state’s methods of execution to include lethal ...
ABC7

Utah lawmakers vote to become only state to allow firing squad

SALT LAKE CITY -- Lawmakers have passed a bill that would make Utah the only state to allow firing squads for carrying out a death penalty if there is a shortage of execution drugs. The passage of the ...
ABC7

Judge argues for return of firing squad executions

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says execution is ugly no matter how it is delivered, so why not select a process that is 100 percent ...
WLRN

A firing squad tried to shoot a prisoner in the heart. They missed, autopsy indicates

A South Carolina man executed last month by firing squad may have suffered for an extended period of time before dying because shooters largely missed his heart, an autopsy commissioned by the state ...

Contextualizing claim Indiana HB 1119 would have allowed death row gas chambers, firing squad if passed

Indiana lawmakers attempted to pass legislation that would allow the state execute people via gas chambers and firing squads. Indiana lawmakers tried to pass legislation that would allow the state to ...
Post and Courier

Secrecy concerns over SC firing squad highlighted after inmate picks another way to die this week

COLUMBIA — Just a couple of months ago, Stephen Stanko was leaning toward being executed by gunfire. Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing ...

‘Suitcase killer’ dodges firing squad after beating girlfriend’s mom to death as he learns fate

A convicted killer who was jailed for beating his girlfriend's mother to death and concealed her body in a suitcase — narrowly avoiding Indonesia's firing squad — has reportedly been sent back to ...