Only three other defendants have been executed by firing squad in the country since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Sigmon’s execution would be the sixth in the U.S. so far in 2025.

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

This bill gives defendants a chance to present evidence of intellectual disability at a pretrial hearing. If found guilty at ...