Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange ...

The U.S. is expected to execute someone by firing squad Friday for the first time in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, has elected to have South Carolina execute him by firing squad rather than the electric ...

As South Carolina plans to carry our the first firing squad execution in 15 years in the United States, Professor Deborah ...

An eyewitness to South Carolina's recent execution by firing squad described the event as "more violent"and much "faster" ...

The last execution by firing squad in the U.S. occurred in Utah in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed for a 1984 murder. Utah remains the only state that has used this method since the U.S.

Since 1977 only three other prisoners in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad. All were in Utah, most recently Ronnie ...

Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

There have only been three other people executed via firing squad in the U.S. since 1977, the most recent being Ronnie Lee ...

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

Now whether or not you pick that over the lethal injection is a matter of your conscience.” In 2010, Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah. It was the last time that the firing squad ...

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.

in advance of the scheduled execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday night. Gardner’s brother, Ronnie Lee Gardner, was ...