In North Korea, by contrast, watching a gripping TV drama can cost you your life. Under the “Anti-Reactionary Thought Law” of ...

A firing squad execution in South Carolina raises questions about the state's procedures, with experts weighing in on their effectiveness compared to other methods. Other pieces highlight the ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Florida is on pace to set a record for the number of inmates put to death in a year, and soon the state will add new methods of execution to its options. Firing squads ...

Decades after war hero's death, children discover footage of their dad in Vietnam Remains of 50,000-year-old baby mammoth found in Siberia ...

Death Row Inmate Facing Firing Squad Claims Riflemen For Last Execution of Missing On Purpose to 'Cause Great Pain' Attorneys are challenging how executions in South Carolina have been performed ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled.

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad, left, and the wooden electric ...

A court sentenced Ralph Leroy Menzies to death in 1988 for kidnapping, robbing and murdering Maurine Hunsaker, a married ...

Death Row inmates can choose among firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection for their executions. If they don't select one, the default is the electric chair. More ...