South Carolina is scheduled next week to be the first state in 15 years and only the third in 49 to carry out an execution by ...

A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed and ...

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the history of firing squads in the U.S. ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution of Brad Sigmon by bullet March 7.

CHARLOTTE — A man on death row in South Carolina chose a brutal form for his execution, but he’s still fighting to stay alive ...

Brad Sigmon, set for execution by firing squad on March 7, seeks a delay, citing concerns over South Carolina’s lethal ...

Meanwhile the South Carolina Supreme Court on Friday scheduled a March 7 execution date for Brad Sigmon for the 2001 murder of a couple and the kidnapping of their daughter, according to the ...

The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon's lawyers ... in the electric chair or by a firing squad. “With the information currently available to Mr. Sigmon, he cannot begin ...

This undated image provided by shows Brad Sigmon, convicted of beating to death his estranged ... S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. (South Carolina Department ...

According to court documents, Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to die on March 7. Sigmon was convicted of murder in the 2001 deaths of David and Gladys Larke and the kidnapping of their daughter ...