Map Shows US States Allowing Firing Squad Executions - MSN

Five U.S. states—including South Carolina—allow executions by firing squad, though it is not the primary execution method in any. On Friday, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad ... Read More

A look at the status of US executions in 2025

Twenty-four men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year in the U.S. Five other people are scheduled to be put to death in four states during the remainder of 2025 ... Read More

'A remarkable development': States expanding their execution methods to firing squad, more

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods. Read More

Idaho becomes first US state to choose firing squad for execution method - New York Post

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad for killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001. Read More

Idaho becomes first state to prefer death by firing squad for executions - Fox News

Idaho became the first state in the U.S. to make death by firing squad its preferred method for executions, just days after an inmate in South Carolina executed with the method. Read More

Map Shows Which States Carried Out Executions in 2024

What's New. Nine states—Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Indiana Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and Utah—carried out executions this year, as a Newsweek map shows.. If an execution ... Read More

US inmate set to die by firing squad, which states allow this?

A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by firing squad, a ... Read More

Firing squad execution planned in South Carolina: Is the method making a return? - FOX 5 Atlanta

The Death Penalty Information Center reports that 7.12% of lethal injections from 1890 to 2010 were botched, compared to zero recorded botched firing squad executions during that period—though ... Read More

The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history - WAVY.com

The firing squad has a long and thorny history in the U.S. South Carolina […] It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of ... Read More

Map Shows US States Allowing Firing Squad Executions

Before Friday's execution, only three inmates in the U.S. had been executed by firing squad, and all three executions occurred in Utah, according to the Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC). Read More

The US is killing someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history - WGN-TV

Five states — Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah — authorize the use of firing squads in certain circumstances. Here’s a look at the history behind the death penalty method. Read More