Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Senate Bill 11, authored by Republican Sen. Michael Young, would let death row inmates request a firing squad if lethal injection is unavailable. The bill’s first reading is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law committee discussed a bill Tuesday that would allow firing squad executions for death ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The image of gunmen in a row firing in unison into the chest of a condemned prisoner may conjure up a bygone, less enlightened era. But the idea of using firing squads is making a ...

A double murderer who battered his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat called America's capital punishment laws unchristian, moments before being shot to death by a firing squad ...

The chair used for firing squad executions is shown in the execution chamber at the Utah State Correctional Facility. (Photo courtesy of the Utah State Department of Corrections) A bill to add the ...

Lawmakers at the statehouse debated the use of firing squads for state executions. A bill that would have authorized a firing squad to carry out the death penalty in Indiana failed to pass out of the ...

Sen. Mike Young, R-Indianapolis, discusses his Senate Bill 11, which would allow Indiana to use a firing squad to carry out executions, during a committee meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (Photo by ...

Update (Dec. 31, 2025): A similar bill is expected to be filed in the Indiana House of Representatives on Jan. 5, 2026. House Bill 1119, titled Execution Methods, would authorize the death penalty to ...