Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

A series of botched executions has raised questions over whether more primitive methods may be the most effective way of ending someone's life.

Prominent legal conservatives on Friday sought to tamp down a wave of sudden criticism directed at Supreme Court Justice Amy ...

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 justice ...

A South Carolina man is facing execution by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010.

A death row inmate in Oklahoma who has been scheduled for execution nine separate times and been fed three “last meals” has won a new trial after the U.S. Supreme Court tossed his murder conviction ...

(WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that an Oklahoma man convicted of murder ... its constitutional ...

And if Sonia Sotomayor is not exactly a titan of the law, well neither was Lucius Lamar, appointed by President Cleveland in 1887 as the first Southerner to join the court after the Civil War.

OKLAHOMA CITY ( KFOR) – Fire crews responded to a house fire in Northwest Oklahoma City Wednesday afternoon. Officials say firefighters responded to a home near NW 16th St. and McKinley Ave. around 12 ...

The Oklahoma State Cowboys may have gotten off to a slow start this season but they made a statement this weekend in the Astros Foundation College Classic baseball tournament in Houston ...