Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

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

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

While South Carolina reasserted itself as the gold standard in the SEC on Sunday, Texas was forced to settle for silver in ...

A South Carolina convict who brutally killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be ...

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a bat, will become the first person ...

The bullet provides rapid expansion and fragmentation, Shain added. Unlike South Carolina, Utah uses a five-member firing squad with .30-caliber rifles loaded with two rounds. The five shooters ...

The South Carolina Gamecocks have plenty of hype entering the spring practice portion of the offseason. We take a look at the ...

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

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

Another Utah man, Ralph Menzies, could be next; he is awaiting the result of a hearing in which his lawyers argued that his dementia makes him unfit for execution. In South Carolina on Friday ...