Bryant is being put to death for killing a man in his home. Investigators said he burned Willard "TJ" Tietjen's eyes with ...

Murderer who taunted cops with messages written in blood chooses execution by firing squad - The firing squad is a new ...

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at ...

Brad Sigmon had three options: die by firing squad, die by electrocution or die by a new lethal injection drug. He chose the firing squad. Mikal Mahdi made the same choice. South Carolina executed ...

The US has brought back an ancient killing method on death row as one writer begins to uncover the times it didn't quite go ...

COLUMBIA — Just a couple of months ago, Stephen Stanko was leaning toward being executed by gunfire. Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court issued ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...

COLUMBIA — Just a couple of months ago, Stephen Stanko was leaning toward being executed by gunfire. Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told ...