South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

South Carolina is set to use a firing squad to execute Brad Sigmon, a rarely used killing method in the United States.

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal ...

Convicted murderer George John Hanson is transferred back to Oklahoma from Louisiana for death sentence execution.

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

Convicted murderer John Fitzgerald Hanson was returned to Oklahoma Saturday from a federal prison in Louisiana to face ...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a staunch supporter of capital punishment, has commuted the sentence of a death row inmate to life in ...

Defendants attorneys lodged three motions to bar the death penalty from being imposed. A judge rejected their arguments in ...

According to a government survey in Japan, over 80 per cent of Japanese people support the death penalty, stating that the ...