South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...

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

Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

A South Carolina convict who brutally killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be ...

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.

A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method ...