South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is ...

Under the state's execution protocols, the firing squad will put a hood over Mahdi's head and shoot him in the heart ...

Before 1923, executions were usually performed by hanging. The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an ...

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad ...

Twenty-five years after confessing to the brutal rape and murder of Miami Herald employee Janet Acosta, Michael Tanzi is ...

The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates. The first person electrocuted by the state was Frank Johnson in 1924 ...

A prison employee will then place a hood over ... This photo shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.