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 ...

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

Brad Sigmon, 67, was found guilty of murdering both of his ex-girlfriend's parents by beating them with a baseball bat in ...