Executioners and drug suppliers to be secret in Miss.
A legal veil of secrecy could drop over much of the execution process in Mississippi under a bill agreed on by House and Senate negotiators.
Miss. House proposes firing squad as execution method
The Mississippi House wants to allow the state to execute prisoners using a firing squad if officials decide lethal injection is too expensive or unavailable.
Miss. could debate firing squad as execution method
Mississippi’s attorney general said Wednesday that he will ask lawmakers to approve the firing squad, electrocution or nitrogen gas as alternate methods of execution in case the state is prevented from giving lethal injections.
Vote for firing squad shows frustration with drug shortages
A vote by Utah lawmakers to bring back executions by firing squad is the most dramatic illustration yet of the nationwide frustration over bungled executions and shortages of lethal-injection drugs.
Lawmaker: Bring back firing squad executions
In the wake of a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma last month, a Utah lawmaker says he believes a firing squad is a more humane form of execution. And he plans to bring back that option for criminals sentenced to death in his state.
Some states consider reviving old-fashioned executions
With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers.
Somalia executes man guilty of killing journalist
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s government on Saturday executed a man who was convicted of murdering a journalist, a military official said, the first such execution