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 ...

One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw. By Jeffrey Collins Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press ...

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

A South Carolina man was executed by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010 and just the fourth firing squad execution since the death penalty resumed in ...

I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I've witnessed three different methods - nine lethal injections and an electric chair execution. I can still hear the thunk of the breaker falling 21 ...

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 ...

The convicted murderer Brad Sigmon's execution will happen at 6 pm local time on Friday evening (12 pm CET), unless either the governor of South Carolina or the Supreme Court decides to give him a ...

Her children have not told her of Brad’s execution nor do they plan to, Mike told The Post. Mike Sigmon said his brother, who was captured in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 11 days after the murders ...

The hearing occurred a week after Hoffman filed a lawsuit seeking to block his March 18 execution date, when nitrogen will be pumped into a mask strapped onto Hoffman, who was convicted of the ...

So this is *** huge development. The history of firing squad is is pretty unusual in the context of all execution methods. On the one hand, it was the first method of execution that was ever used ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon ...