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 ...

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

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

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

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

Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the other choices offered by the state to be worse.

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

The children and grandchildren of David and Gladys Larke will be in Columbia to witness the execution of the man who beat the couple to death in 2001 ...

South Carolina death row inmate, Mikal Mahdi, 41, has chosen execution by firing squad on April 11 following his guilty ...

Brad Sigmon made the choice after the state Supreme Court denied a stay request based on questions about the effectiveness of lethal injection ...

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