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

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

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

A Utah judge paused an emergency order banning Sentinel Security Life Insurance Co. from writing new business nationwide.

Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

A South Carolina convict who brutally killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be ...

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

In Utah, the only state that has executed prisoners by firing squad in the past 50 years, only four of the five shooters fire ...

Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

The South Carolina Gamecocks have plenty of hype entering the spring practice portion of the offseason. We take a look at the ...