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

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

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 ...

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

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

Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney said.

There have only been three other people executed via firing squad in the U.S. since 1977, the most recent being Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010, according to the AP. All three deaths occurred in Utah, and ...

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

A South Carolina man has selected the firing squad as his preferred method of death in what will become the state's first ...

Ronnie Lee Gardner becomes the third man to die by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Four turnovers and a porous run defense were too much to ...

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.

Now whether or not you pick that over the lethal injection is a matter of your conscience.” In 2010, Ronnie Lee Gardner was ...