A bill introduced this legislative session would legalize a form of capital punishment largely used during the Civil War but very rarely in modern day United States: execution by firing squad. Senate ...

Indiana law currently permits executions to be carried out by lethal injection, but a proposed bill would add death by firing squad as an alternative method. The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law ...

Indiana lawmakers approved several changes Tuesday to a bill expanding execution methods, which is now pending a full House vote. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, Pool) A bill expanding Indiana’s execution ...

Oct. 10 (UPI) --Indiana executed Roy Lee Ward, who was sentenced to death after being convicted of rape and murder Friday morning, shortly after midnight CDT. Ward, 53, was convicted of the 2001 rape ...

Sen. Mike Young, R-Indianapolis, discusses his Senate Bill 11, which would allow Indiana to use a firing squad to carry out executions, during a committee meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (Photo by ...

A bill to add the firing squad as an execution method in Indiana failed in the House this week, falling three votes short of the required constitutional majority. The legislation could still be ...

New records from the governor’s office show Indiana paid $100,000 for execution drugs used in October – bringing the total amount the state has spent on pentobarbital to at least $1.275 million – and ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WNDU) - A bill that would have added firing squads as an execution method in Indiana failed in the state house with a 48-47 vote, falling short of the 51 votes needed to pass. Nineteen ...