Shortly after Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad, fellow death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has also chosen it ...

South Carolina inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

The firing squad is certainly faster — and more violent — than lethal injection ... There was no warning or countdown. The abrupt crack of the rifles startled me. And the white target with the red ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, an Orangeburg police officer, and burning his body during ...

It will be three people holding rifles about 15 feet away who will complete his punishment in what will be the United States' first firing squad execution in 15 years. Some 46 prisoners have been ...

They could see the prisoner, but not the firing squad’s rifles through the opening. In a final statement read by his lawyer, Mr. Sigmon said he wanted his message “to be one of love and a ...

Three Department of Corrections sharpshooters fired on Sigmon, on death row for the 2001 beating deaths of David and Gladys ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.

Over this past weekend, the Mount Aloysius rifle team finished up its inaugural campaign with a Mid-Atlantic Rifle Conference championship. The event, which was hosted by Massachusetts Institute ...