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

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

Former state Sen. Dick Harpootlian suggested the idea of letting death row inmates choose to die by firing squad in 2021. With the first prisoner set to be executed by one, he shares his thinking now.

The Georgia House unanimously passed a bill to lessen the threshold for a person facing the death penalty to be deemed ...

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 ... "I couldn’t have her, I wasn’t going to let anybody else have her," he said in a confession. If he does not choose an execution method, Sigmon would be killed by the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A condemned man who is the next person scheduled to be put to death in South Carolina ... an execution method, he would be electrocuted. His attorneys say he does not want ...

If Sigmon refuses to choose an execution method, he would be electrocuted ... is older than any of the 46 people who have been put to death in South Carolina since capital punishment was ...