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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sen. Mike Young, R-Indianapolis, discusses his Senate Bill 11, which would allow Indiana to use a firing squad to carry out ...

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana lawmakers are considering a bill this legislative session that would allow the state to execute death row inmates by firing squad, with more than one shooter simultaneously ...

Efforts to legalize execution by firing squad in Indiana are stalled after the House failed to pass legislation that would allow condemned prisoners to be gunned to death. But it's not completely off ...

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 ...

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 ...