Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

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

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

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

Former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian suggested the idea of letting death row inmates choose to die by firing squad in 2021.

The newspaper reported that Gardner was strapped down and a hood placed over his head. The five shooters out of view of the ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for ...

A South Carolina man has selected the firing squad as his preferred method of death in what will become the state's first ...

Now, a team of sharpshooters is practicing its aim for what is poised to be the first firing squad execution in the state’s history on Friday. Death by firing squad remains an extremely uncommon ...