Capital punishment could soon look a lot different in North Carolina. A House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday gave preliminary ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

North Carolina lawmakers will discuss a bill Tuesday that would give death row inmates the option to choose between three ...

The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions may go.

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

North Carolina hasn't had any executions since 2006 due to legal challenges, and lethal injection is the only legal method ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to die by three bullets to the heart instead of lethal injection or the electric chair.

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

which would allow criminals sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose lethal injection, electrocution, or firing squad for their execution. State Rep. David Willis, a Republican from Union ...