When the clock strikes 6 Friday evening, a South Carolina man will walk into the death chamber, be strapped into a chair and ...

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

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say ...

Death by firing squad could become Idaho’s primary method of execution under a bill headed to the governor’s desk this week.

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

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

The inmate chose to be executed by firing squad over the two other methods in South Carolina — the electric chair and lethal ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way ...

They were the glue of their small-town South Carolina family of five children and a growing number of grandchildren before ...

Hanging was the execution method of choice throughout most of American history, and it was used in America’s last public execution in 1936, when Rainey Bethea was put to death in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...

Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in ...