Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001. He chose the firing squad over the electric chair ...

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

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010 — and just the fourth since the ...

A South Carolina inmate petitioned the courts for execution by firing squad—and won. His execution is set for March 7.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad ...

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

Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon's execution will be the first by firing squad. Just three inmates — in Utah ...

A South Carolina man is set to die by firing squad Friday evening, marking the nation’s first such execution since 2010. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose the firing squad over death by lethal injection or ...

The overhaul of South Carolina’s death chamber was completed three years ago. Now, a team of sharpshooters is practicing its aim for what is poised to be the first firing squad execution in the ...

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad on March 7, the first such execution in the state and the first in the nation in 15 years. But firearms experts are questioning whether South ...