The orders also may represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, they said.

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

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 man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was put to death by firing squad ...

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

How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. Shortly before ...

In part of his final statement, Brad Sigmon said, "I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty." ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010.

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

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing squad ...

It will be the first time in 15 years a firing squad has been used in the United States, and the first for South Carolina.