Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Those executions marked the first by firing squad in the United States since 2010 and only the fourth and fifth using that method in modern U.S. history. (The others were in Utah in 1977 and 1996.) ...

Finally, those sentiments were echoed last March when two Arizona legislators introduced a resolution asking that the state’s voters be allowed to vote to approve firing squads as the primary ...

Dems fear fallout from Arizona crack-up Democrats are looking for county organizations through which they could funnel fundraising and resources, bypassing the state party.

Florida, Oklahoma, Arizona and Texas have executed men by lethal injection, while South Carolina has used both the firing squad and lethal injection.

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

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.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

Firing squad executions resume Mahdi’s execution came a little over a month after Brad Sigmon was put to death March 7, in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and the fourth since 1976.