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

South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die by firing squad March 7, a first for the state after he raised doubts ...

Not much is known about the people who will fire the rifles. Prison officials said they have "completed all required training." ...

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

I’m like, if we could just round up the scum of this Earth and put them on an island or just kill them all, I could shipshape ...

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

The last firing squad execution, in 2010, lasted about four minutes, from when the death chamber’s curtain was lifted to when the bullets struck Utah inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner, according to ...

But in modern times, that method of execution is rare. The last time an American inmate was killed that way was in 2010 in Utah. That could be changing — and not only in South Carolina.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the decision made by the Utah Supreme Court to overturn the death sentence of a Utah ...

Four other states − Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma, and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method, most recently Idaho in 2023. The last inmate in the U.S. to be killed by ...