Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

Not much is known about the people who will fire the rifles. Prison officials said they have "completed all required training." ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

First firing squad execution in SC set for Friday, Greenville County Coroner recalls 2001 'gruesome' death ...

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The scheduled execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina is set to be the first firing squad execution in the U.S. since 2010 and only the fourth since the death penalty was ...

FILE - The gurney used for lethal injections sits in a small cinder block building at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson, Atlanta, Sept. 7, 2007. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal ...

HOUSTON (AP) — South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in the U.S. in nearly 15 years. Since the Supreme Court ...