An Indiana lawmaker has proposed changes to how the state conducts executions.State Representative Jim Lucas (R) of Seymour ...

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied to a tree with her throat slit.

In accordance with China's criminal law, the court deprived Zhang of political rights to life, and sentenced him to death.

Chinese actor and singer, Zhang Yiyang also known as Gui Zai, has been executed by firing squad for the murder of his underage girlfriend.The Intermediate People’s Court of Xianyang in North Shaanxi ...

Indiana is grappling with the high cost and short shelf life of the drug pentobarbital, which is used in executions.

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in 1986. When given a choice decades ago, Menzies selected a firing squad as his ...

Utah death row inmate Ralph Leroy Menzies is scheduled to be executed by firing squad just after midnight on Sept. 5.

Utah Department of Corrections officials say they’ll be ready to carry out the upcoming execution of death row inmate Ralph ...

Executions by firing squad have been quite rare in this country, with the last one occurring more than a decade ago in Utah. That state adopted the firing squad in the middle of the 19th century, ...

From colonial days through 2002, more than 15,000 people were put to death, according to data compiled by death penalty researchers M. Watt Espy and John Ortiz Smykla. Just 143 died by firing squad… ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

Others say it's not cut-and-dry, or that there are other factors to consider.Here is a look at the status of firing squads in the United States:When was the last execution by firing squad?Ronnie ...