The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions may go.

South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is days away. The curtain shrieked as it was yanked open to reveal a 67 ...

A bill advancing in the state legislature Tuesday would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between ...

Two execution are scheduled for the second week of April in Florida and South Carolina, one of them by firing squad.

Last month, the US executed its first prisoner by firing squad in 15 years. Double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, died in a hail of bullets just after 6pm on Friday, March 7. It was only the fourth ...

The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff ...

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. Gladys Larke never wanted to go out to eat for special celebrations like Mother's Day or a birthday.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. He was declared dead at 6.08pm by on-site medical staff after ...

April 11 (UPI) --South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday in Columbia. Mahdi was ...

The deceased South Carolina man, Brad Sigmon, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001. Sigmon was given a choice for his ...

Mahdi chose a firing squad over lethal injection or electrocution, as Brad Sigmon did for his March 7 execution, which was the first time the state had used the method. Just three other inmates in the ...