I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad Kieth Sigmon wrote ahead of his execution.

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in men’s college basketball, where Jahmai Mashack ushered in March with ...