Louisiana has hit a roadblock in its plan to resume executions after a 15-year pause. At issue is the method -- death by nitrogen gas -- an which has been used only a handful of times in Alabama and ...

Imagine being given a choice on how you die, but the options are limited to electrocution, lethal injection or a firing squad ...

One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw.

One of the media witnesses to Friday night’s execution, the first ever in the state to use a firing squad, provided his eyewitness account.

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...

Brad Sigmon was shot to death on Friday (March 7), marking the first death row inmate killed by firing squad in 15 years.

Having brutally beat David and Gladys Larke to death with a baseball bat 23 years ago, Brad Sigmon has finally completed his ...

Brad Sigmon, who battered his ex's parents to death, said in his last statement it was wrong to take "eye for an eye".

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method.

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 ...