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

While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...

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 ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.

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

It was the second time someone was executed by firing squad in S.C. in five weeks and only the fifth time in the U.S. since 1976.

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 ...