The firing squad is among the country’s oldest execution methods, according to Deborah Denno, a professor at Fordham Law School who studies the death penalty and execution methods.

Executions by firing squad have been quite rare in this country, with the last one occurring more than a decade ago in Utah. That state adopted the firing squad in the middle of the 19th century, ...

The firing squad also meets the Supreme Court's prerequisite as a "known and available alternative," established in the landmark Glossip v. Gross case , she argues.

Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. An inmate put to death last month in South Carolina's second firing squad execution was conscious and ...

From colonial days through 2002, more than 15,000 people were put to death, according to data compiled by death penalty researchers M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla. Just 143 died by firing squad… ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...

A firing squad tried to shoot a prisoner's heart. Everyone missed. The autopsy notes two bullet wounds even though there were three shooters, and a forensic expert says the misfires likely caused ...

Richard B. Moore chose a firing squad over electrocution but said both methods were unconstitutional. His execution, set for this month, would be the country’s first by firing squad since 2010.

The State Department is firing more than 1,300 people on Friday as part of a dramatic overhaul of the agency, according to an ...