Now, the first prisoner to be executed in South Carolina in a decade has the option to choose firing squad as the method of death.

The state of South Carolina is ready to reinstitute the firing squad as an execution method for its death-row inmates.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother killed three people and injured 264 others in their 2013 terrorist attack.

Two Oklahoma inmates on death row have said they would prefer to die by a firing squad rather than face lethal injection.

While Cox had long been considered a suspect in the disappearance of his sister-in-law, Felicia Cox, he admitted to her murder, too.

'There is no world in which the Biden-led Justice Department crosses the president on such a politically sensitive issue.'

The Supreme Court rejected a plea to reimpose the death penalty on a South Carolina inmate whose sentence had stood for two decades.

Conley admitted to killing the whole family in a video recording that was played for jurors of an interview with homicide detectives.

Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, has been considering whether to reduce the 61-year-old Ernest Johnson's sentence to life in prison.

The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals scheduled the executions to occur once a month from October through March, with two in January.