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

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

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 executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

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

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, marking the first time that execution ...

The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. occurred in Utah in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed for a 1984 ...

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who recently became the first person in the United States to be executed by a firing ...

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

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

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