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 ...

During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die that way in some states. By Jacey Fortin On Friday, a man convicted of ...

A death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including an electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...

By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night in the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad in the first use of the method in the US for 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the ...

It will be three people holding rifles about 15 feet (4.6 meters) away who will complete his punishment in what will be the United States' first firing squad execution in 15 years. Some 46 ...

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. A South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in a fit of rage is set to become the ...

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 ...