Idaho becomes first state to prefer death by firing squad for executions
The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...
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State Executions to Resume Under New Lethal Injection Protocol
One afternoon in 2022, when it became clear that the Tennessee Department of Correction had violated or otherwise ignored ...
Louisiana’s Jewish community protests nitrogen gas death row executions, seeing a link to ‘the decimation of our people’
A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...
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Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods
Lethal injection has been the preferred method in the modern era, with 1,428 carried out since 1976. Texas has done the most, killing 593 inmates, according to the Death Penalty Information ...
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Here’s how people on death row meet their ends in each state
As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.
South Carolina kills death-row prisoner in state's first firing squad execution
Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...
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An American is set to be executed by firing squad. Here’s what to know.
and another stayed in 2022 amid challenges to the state’s death penalty protocol and shortages of its lethal injection drug. Lawyers for Sigmon said his initial trial did not take mitigating ...
More execution dates set as Tennessee begins new lethal injection protocol
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Supreme Court confirmed that the Attorney General has filed motions to set execution dates for ...