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

The death row inmate is scheduled for execution, convicted of two counts of murder in the deaths of David and Gladys Larke ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.

An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina.

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

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

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

Experience and preparation allowed AP reporter Jeffrey Collins to take news consumers inside the South Carolina death chamber ...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in 15 years.

A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.