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 ...

Iowa lawmakers reconsidered the discussion Wednesday on whether or not the state should restore the death penalty for certain crimes. The bill, Senate File 320, that advanced out of a Senate ...