A bill advancing in the state legislature Tuesday would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between ...

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

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

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

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

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.

Capital punishment could soon look a lot different in North Carolina. A House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday plans to discuss ...

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 ...

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.