Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange ...

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

An eyewitness to South Carolina's recent execution by firing squad described the event as "more violent"and much "faster" ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

A South Carolina man, Brad Sigmon, was executed by firing squad, choosing it over other methods. The event took place in Columbia. He was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m.

Randy Gardner, the older brother of Ronnie Lee Gardner who was executed via firing squad in Utah in 2010, said he was praying Friday's execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina is halted.

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat to death his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat as part of a botched ...

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

As South Carolina plans to carry our the first firing squad execution in 15 years in the United States, Professor Deborah ...

Randy Gardner speaks against the death penalty during a visit to Columbia, South Carolina, in advance of the scheduled execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday night. Gardner's brother, Ronnie ...

Gardner's brother, Ronnie Lee Gardner, was the last inmate to die by firing squad in 2010 in Utah. (AP video: Erik Verduzco, Jeffrey Collins) ...