A Wigan borough 45-year-old is awaiting sentence after admitting he attacked a woman. Stephen Pemberton, of Tamer Grove in ...

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 ...

A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen a firing squad for his execution. Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering two ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate ...

In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.

A federal judge rejected a Georgia death row inmate's request to be executed by firing squad because he claims that lethal injection could cause him excruciating pain. Michael Wade Nance ...

But for Cooper’s action, 2024 would have been the first year since 2016 in which no state granted clemency to any inmate on death row. In place after place, clemency boards and governors turned ...

Michael Wade Nance, on Georgia's death row for a 1993 murder, argued that lethal injection could cause him severe pain due to his medical history and proposed a firing squad as an alternative.

A remorseful death row inmate pleaded for forgiveness and mouthed one final message before being put to death in Texas on Thursday, 20 years after he killed his strip club manager and another man.

A man — who was convicted in Texas of a double homicide and confessed to killing two others — sought penance from the ...

Now 20 years later, those who know him say he's a deeply faithful man who has become so gentle, he recently hand-raised a baby lizard in his cell on Texas Death Row. "The man I was 20 years ago is ...

Meanwhile, Sims on Monday asked 22nd District Judge Alan Zaunbrecher to set an execution date for Jessie Hoffman, who was sent to death row for the 1996 killing of Mary “Molly” Elliot ...