COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner ...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County land dispute in December 2003. Bixby was slated to be put to death in May, ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, marking the first time that execution ...

Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon. He has been a witness to 11 South Carolina executions during his nearly 25-year career with The Associated ...

Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution ...