The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way ...

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

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

A man is set to face execution by firing squad in South Carolina later this week. Brad Keith Sigmon, 76, was sentenced to ...

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

A convicted double murderer is set to die by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday — the first execution of its kind in ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

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

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

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

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