Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

The bullet provides rapid expansion and fragmentation, Shain added. Unlike South Carolina, Utah uses a five-member firing squad with .30-caliber rifles loaded with two rounds. The five shooters ...

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

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

Another Utah man, Ralph Menzies, could be next; he is awaiting the result of a hearing in which his lawyers argued that his dementia makes him unfit for execution. In South Carolina on Friday ...

Three volunteer prison employees used rifles to carry out the execution of Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of murdering his ex ...

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Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.