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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah death row inmate Ralph Menzies' execution by firing squad is just a month away. Utah's Board of Pardons and Parole will hold hearings next week to consider his request to commute ...

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A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House on Wednesday, falling three votes short ...

ELON, N.C. — Update: On the deadline, Fri., Oct. 3, Gov. Josh Stein signed Iryna's Law. The clock is ticking on the fate of capital punishment, in a controversial bill Gov. Josh Stein has until Friday ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.