Death sentence or capital punishment is the punishment provided for major offences like murder, armed robbery and kidnapping amongst others and it ranges from execution via firing squad, hanging or ...

The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., includes an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...

AND ONLINE AS WE WORK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THAT. AND ANOTHER SOUTH CAROLINA INMATE WAS EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD YESTERDAY. MICHAEL MARTY WAS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING AN OFF DUTY POLICE ...

Before that, no person had been killed by a firing squad in the United States in 15 years. By Eduardo Medina South Carolina executed another convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Long a method of execution associated with political terror or military justice, a firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on ...

A firing squad in South Carolina is set to execute a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times and set him on fire. Under the state's execution protocols ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty ...

PERSON AT THIS TIME. WELL, THE NEXT SOUTH CAROLINA DEATH ROW INMATE SCHEDULED FOR EXECUTION HAS CHOSEN THE FIRING SQUAD. TODAY, THE DEADLINE FOR MIKAEL MOODY WAS TO DECIDE HOW HE WANTED TO BE ...

Firing squad came about in South Carolina after the state couldn't get the drugs used for the lethal injection, which caused a 14-year pause in the method of execution. Utah is the only other ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the ...