Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the history of firing squads in the U.S. ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution ...

Brad Sigmon will be put to death on March 7 after being convicted of battering his ex-girlfriend's parents to death at their ...

Attorneys for death row inmate Brad Sigmon have filed a motion with the South Carolina Supreme Court requesting a stay of his execution.

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

Attorneys for Brad Sigmon, the next SC death row inmate, raised concerns in a Feb. 26 filing over the autopsy report for ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of beating two people to death with a baseball bat, and he’s scheduled to be executed in weeks. But ...

Lawyers filed a motion to halt proceedings to determine whether the information the state provides about its lethal injection ...

Strapping a man to a chair and shooting him is murder,” columnist Issac J. Bailey writes. “It’s not justice even if it’s supposedly done in the name of the government.” ...

Gerald 'Bo' King, Brad Sigmon's lawyer, says the 67-year-old's decision to die from firing squad comes as he's run out of options. Sigmon was sentenced to death for the double murder of his ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents has chosen to be put to death by firing squad next ...

Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte proposed the changes last week in her budget address. Also in the news: Montana, Iowa, Texas, Maryland, and South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Condemned South Carolina inmate, Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years.