Firing Squad, the execution

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...
The U.S. is expected to execute someone by firing squad Friday for the first time in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, has elected ...
Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...
Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.
Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a bat, will become the first person ...
The bullet provides rapid expansion and fragmentation, Shain added. Unlike South Carolina, Utah uses a five-member firing squad with .30-caliber rifles loaded with two rounds. The five shooters ...