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

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, ...

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

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

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

The newspaper reported that Gardner was strapped down and a hood placed over his head. The five shooters out of view of the ...

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

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

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

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday ...