South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

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

A South Carolina man facing execution for murdering his ex-girlfriends parents will "pay for what he's done," the victims ...

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

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

Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Brad Sigmon, a man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, is set to be executed by firing squad on Friday.

Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon’s ...

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

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