The firing squad team − three voluntary corrections staff − were standing behind a wall with loaded rifles 15 feet from Sigmon. The wall has an opening for the weapons. A white target with a ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977. Sigmon's attorney called it a "bloody spectacle." ...

She is a graduate of Ithaca College. A South Carolina man convicted of a double murder is set to be executed by firing squad, marking the first use of this method in the state and the first in the ...

Moroccan international Nayef Aguerd has drawn attention for being a solid brick in the defensive wall of his country’s ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say more places may turn to.