Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad
Brad Sigmon is the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state's new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric ...
Judge reopens challenge to Louisiana execution protocol as state prepares to use nitrogen gas
A federal judge has reopened a lawsuit challenging Louisiana's execution protocol as the state prepares to carry out the ...
New bill would make firing squad Arizona’s main method of execution
A man who killed an ASU student in 1978 was put to death by lethal injection in 2022. Gov. Katie Hobbs then put a temporary ...
U.S. Firing Squad Executions Are Rare, but Their History Is Long
During the Civil War, both sides used firing squads to kill deserting soldiers. Today, people on death row can choose to die ...
South Carolina death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad
A South Carolina man on death row has chosen death by firing squad as his method of execution, his lawyer said Friday. If his ...
Greenville man on South Carolina's death row chooses firing squad for March 7 execution
Brad Sigmon made the choice after the state Supreme Court denied a stay request based on questions about the effectiveness of lethal injection ...
Condemned South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad
Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...
Execution witness challenges Arkansas bill allowing nitrogen hypoxia method
Arkansas is one among several other states that are looking to replace their way of carrying out capital punishment by using ...
'Barbaric': Inmate chooses death by firing squad for execution in South Carolina next month
Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.