U.S. Firing Squad Executions Are Rare, but Their History Is Long
During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...
Condemned South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad
Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...
South Carolina Death Row Inmate Chooses to Be Executed by a Firing Squad
The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...
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Official Trailer for ‘The Chosen: Last Supper’ Teases Key Moments Leading to Jesus’ Death
Catholic actor Jonathan Roumie spoke openly about how he prepared to portray the important events that take place during Holy ...
Louisiana Is Restarting Executions for the First Time in 15 Years. Will Other States Follow?
Today, there are 63 people on Louisiana’s death row, well below the death row populations in Alabama and Texas, but almost twice the size of Mississippi’s. The last time a new death sentence was ...
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Antoinette Frank, ex-NOPD officer on death row, not yet eligible to be executed, DA says; AG raises concerns
A spokesperson for Louisiana's attorney general said "four to five" condemned prisoners are eligible to be executed. But that list doesn't include former NOPD officer Antoinette Frank.
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Texas executes inmate who killed two men in Killeen in 2004
In his final statement, Richard Tabler asked for forgiveness from his victims’ family members, some of whom reportedly ...
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The Nuns Trying to Save the Women on Texas’s Death Row
Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The ...
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Race was ‘a significant factor’ in Johnston County death penalty case, NC judge rules
a Black man who was sentenced to death in 2009 and who was spared from death row last year. In a 120-page order, Superior Court Judge Wayland Sermons also ruled that race was “a significant ...