Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon's execution will be the first by firing squad. Just three inmates — in Utah in 1977 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad ...

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010 — and just the fourth since the ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat his ...

A South Carolina inmate petitioned the courts for execution by firing squad—and won. His execution is set for March 7.

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk. The Idaho Senate passed the bill on Wednesday, and it will ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents is to be put to death by firing squad on Friday in ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001. He chose the firing squad over the electric chair ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid ...

A man on death row will become South Carolina's first ever execution by firing squad later this week after revealing why he ...