The last time such an execution took place was in 2010, in Utah. The inmate chose the method because of his concerns about ...

Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to become the first in the US to die by the unusual method in 15 years at 6 p.m ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

The US Supreme Court cleared the way for South Carolina to carry out its first execution by firing squad in decades.

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...

Amid drug shortages for lethal injection and legal challenges against the new methods, executions were paused for about 13 ...

Just hours before Brad Sigmon is set for a historic death via firing squad, his lawyer, Bo King, says they're hoping for a stay of execution. King claims that Sigmon requested additional information ...

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a bat, will become the first person ...

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

How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. Shortly before ...

The 67-year-old man will be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, when three volunteer shooters will fire at his heart from 15 feet away.