Indiana House debate over a bill to legalize execution by firing squad turned into a debate over capital punishment writ ...

Lawmakers voted against a bill to allow death sentences to be carried out by firing squads. Many lawmakers indicated they ...

A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House this week, falling three votes short of ...

A bill expanding Indiana’s execution methods was significantly amended Tuesday after lawmakers voted to remove nitrogen hypoxia as an option and added provisions on media access and mental health ...

It bombed with a 48 to 47 vote, coming short of the 51 votes needed to pass.

Firing squad and nitrogen hypoxia would be allowed alongside lethal injection to carry out Indiana’s death penalty under a ...

Indiana currently has five people on death row, one of whom has been ruled mentally incompetent for execution.

A bill to add firing squad as execution method in Indiana fails in House. Opposition argues it's barbaric and raises concerns ...

The doxing bill was amended and passed out of the Indiana Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee, while the firing squad bill was held — with an ominous message from the committee chairman ...

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) — 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, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.(AP) — A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44, will be the ...