A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method.

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010.

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The inmate in South Carolina chose the method because ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

A death row inmate convicted of killing and raping an 8-year-old before murdering her grandmother in 1993 is asking Florida not to execute him on March 20, citi ...

The attorney for a Florida death row inmate scheduled to be executed later this month is making a final plea to the state ...

March 7 (UPI) -- South Carolina has executed a man convicted of double murder by firing squad, the first time the state has ...

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to ...

Louisiana is scheduled to execute a man with nitrogen gas on March 18. Arkansas lawmakers are seeking to introduce nitrogen ...

As someone who has studied execution methods in the U.S., I see the resumption of death by firing squad as part of a morbid ...

Texas executed Death Row inmate Richard Lee Tabler on Thursday ... The execution came about an hour after Florida executed James Dennis Ford by lethal injection for killing a young couple in ...