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 ...

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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 ...

There have been two firing squad executions in South Carolina this year. In early March, Brad Sigmon, a 67-year-old who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 ...

Stephen Bryant will have until Oct. 31 to choose if he wants to die by lethal injection, firing squad or in the electric ...

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 ...

Prisoners executed by lethal injection in states like South Carolina are receiving corrosive chemicals that tear into the lungs, and the condemned could essentially die while drowning in their own ...

South Carolina man Mikal Mahdi — who was convicted of two 2004 murders, including the death of a police officer — was executed by firing squad on April 11 Now, attorneys for Mahdi are claiming he died ...

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 ...