"I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty," Brad ...

I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...

A man who was serving in federal prison in Louisiana is now in Oklahoma to await execution later this year, but only because ...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad yesterday, the first use of the method in the United ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977. Sigmon's attorney called it a "bloody spectacle." ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, opts for firing squad execution, fearing slower, torturous death by electric chair or injection ...

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.

Thirty-seven years to the day, the state of Texas is set to execute Wood for the killing of six of those victims, who bodies ...

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Firing squads have a long and storied history in the U.S. They've served as a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way ...

Wood's conviction of the murders of six women and girls in El Paso in 1987 was largely based on circumstantial evidence. He's set for execution March 13.

I view the firing squad as a more humane way to carry out executions for those on death row, because it is quick and certain, ...