Kolodin wants to put using a firing squad on the 2026 ballot so voters can decide. “I don’t know what it is,” he said. “But lethal injection just seems to be incredibly complicated, where ...

How many states use firing squad as a method of execution? In 2023, the Associated Press reported that Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah allow for execution by firing squad.

The man Gov. Katie Hobbs chose to review Arizona's execution process was fired after he recommended the state use a firing squad. By Alexis Dominguez Published : Nov. 27, 2024 at 5:28 PM MST ...

The surreal national debate over the death penalty reached a climax of sorts Wednesday afternoon in a prison execution chamber in Florence, Ariz. Double murderer Joseph Wood was put to death by ...

As Arizona prepares to execute Aaron Gunches, the state Legislature is sitting on the perfect bloody plan for future sendoffs. Rep. Alexander Kolodin, R-Scottsdale, wants to round up a firing squad.

— -- Should lethal injection be replaced by firing squad? One federal judge thinks so. Before Joseph Wood's controversial execution Wednesday in Arizona, one federal judge reviewing the case ...

Using firing squads in Arizona would require changing state law. Voters in 1992 approved lethal injection as the state’s method, though the measure said people already on death row at the time ...

Firing squad witness describes execution: "My heart started pounding" Jeffrey Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon. He has been a witness to 11 ...

A Republican lawmaker wants Arizona voters to allow executions by firing squad because, he says, riddling convicts with bullets is 'always humane.' ...