Sigmon was shot to death by the three state corrections department volunteers - who fired rifles at his chest with specially ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

Biden only left three mass killers on death row: Dylann Roof, who killed nine people at a church in Charleston, South ...

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 ...

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

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, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon, 67, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the other ...

An Associated Press journalist has served as a media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in ...

LAS VEGAS -- The only man ever charged in the notorious Las Vegas murder of rapper Tupac Shakur insists he is "innocent," ...

A man on death row who's set to be executed by firing squad later on Friday (March 7) has made one final plea. It was back in ...

A man on death row will become South Carolina's first ever execution by firing squad later this week after revealing why he ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be ...