Federal funding for the 14-lane pistol and rifle range was included in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act signed ...

On Friday afternoon, the state of South Carolina carried out the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years . As a method of execution, the firing squad had been largely ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some consider it a more humane ...

A bill allowing for firing squad executions for death penalty inmates was filed in the Indiana legislature for the 2026 session.

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad and the wooden electric chair. South ...

The clock is winding down on 2025, and millions of people are getting ready to ring in the new year with the usual mix of ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment, beginning ...

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won't be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It ...

A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad early Friday evening – a method used for the first time in 15 years in ...

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The University of Michigan made headlines for all the wrong reason just two weeks ago when it fired Sherrone Moore in the ...