NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — State executions should resume in May after the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) completed its multi-year revision of the state’s lethal injection protocol.
A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution ...
Judges in St. Tammany Parish and DeSoto Parish have signed death warrants to schedule executions for March 17 and March 18. Judge Alan Zaunbrecher of the 22nd Judicial District Court signed a ...
So this is *** huge development. The history of firing squad is is pretty unusual in the context of all execution methods. On the one hand, it was the first method of execution that was ever used ...
South Carolina is set to execute Brad Sigmon by firing squad, the first such execution in the U.S. in 15 years. Firing squads have been used in America since 1608, mostly in Utah, with only three ...
Louisiana will be using the controversial nitrogen gas method for its execution, marking the end of a 15-year hiatus on capital punishment in the state. Arizona will resume executions after ...
One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw. By Jeffrey Collins Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press ...
The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.