(NewsNation) — For the first time in 15 years, the United States is putting someone to death using a firing squad. Death row inmate Brad Sigmon is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina on Friday.

The state of Alabama has proved that it is incapable of consistently carrying out executions that conform to the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment. After a series of botched ...

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen needed to stay alive ...