On Friday afternoon, the state of South Carolina carried out the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years . As a method of execution, the firing squad had been largely ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some consider it a more humane ...

A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad early Friday evening – a method used for the first time in 15 years in ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment, beginning ...

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When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won't be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder chose to be put to death by firing squad next month in what would be the first such ...

A South Carolina prisoner is set to be executed by firing squad Friday in the first execution of its kind in more than a decade. Brad Sigmon, 67, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2002 in the ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some ...