Everything about this barbaric, state-sanctioned atrocity—from the choice to the method itself—is abjectly cruel. We ...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

Brad Sigmon, sentenced for a 2001 double murder, chose to be executed by firing squad because of concerns about lethal ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad Kieth Sigmon wrote ahead of his execution.

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Only three inmates have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since 1976 — when the Supreme Court reaffirmed the ...

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...