The big picture: The execution of Brad Sigmon will also mark the first time in 15 ... are extremely rare in the U.S. Only five states — Mississippi, Oklahoma, Utah, South Carolina, Idaho ...

Attorneys for a Utah ... of execution unless the drugs are unavailable. Since 1977 only five prisoners in the U.S have been executed by firing squad. Three were in Utah, most recently in 2010 ...

A reporter who witnessed the first firing squad execution in the US for 15 years described how disturbing it was.

Attorneys for Ralph Leroy Menzies, who's been on death row for 37 years, sought to convince a Utah state judge that the ...