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.

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 ...

And on Friday, a lawyer for a man who was convicted of murder said that his client preferred a firing squad to other methods of execution. Death by firing squad has a long history in the United ...

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 ...