Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call ...

Advocates hope they can convince developers to drop an Idaho-backed project to convert a jail facility into an execution ...

The brother of the last man executed by firing squad in the United States is joining community advocates to protest against ...

Advocates and faith leaders in Idaho plan to gather to express concerns about a potential new firing squad execution center.

A Georgia inmate's request to die by a firing squad instead of lethal injection is denied by a federal court.

Nance sued Georgia’s prison system claiming lethal injection would cause him excruciating pain because of his medical history ...

In his complaint, Michael Wade Nance said his veins were so severely compromised that they were likely to blow and cause him to suffer “excruciating pain” during the execution.

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 ...