The court postponed a potential sixth execution, that of Steven Bixby, who killed two police officers in an Abbeville County ...

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

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner ...

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

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

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

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

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

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

The inmate was 67-year-old Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of double-murder. The last execution by firing squad in the U.S.

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

By Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -South Carolina plans to execute a man ...