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

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the ...

The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. occurred in Utah in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed for a 1984 ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat is to be put to death by firing ...

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

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who recently became the first person in the United States to be executed by a firing ...

Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say may be making a comeback in more states as lethal injection drugs become ...

Only five states allow firing squads for executions. But the firing squad isn’t the primary death penalty method in any of ...

After a spate of botched executions involving lethal injection, a condemned South Carolina man decided he'd prefer a firing ...