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

Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.

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

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years.

Few people know the room better than Baxley, who executed ten people by lethal injection and the electric chair from behind a ...

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a ...

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his ...

Sigmon's lawyers said he chose the firing squad because the electric chair would “cook him alive,” and he feared that a ...

Visible in the same small room was the state's unused electric chair. The gurney used to carry out lethal injections had been rolled away. The volunteers all fired at the same time through ...