Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.
A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say may be making a comeback in more states as lethal injection drugs ...
Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.
It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...