For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

A firing squad executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method ...

South Carolina’s highest court has rejected the last major appeal from Mikal Mahdi, who is scheduled to die by firing squad ...

I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...

A seminal work from Andy Warhol's controversial Death and Disaster series will lead Christie's marquee 20th-century art evening sale on 12 ...

On Friday, South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad, marking the state's first use of the method ... lethal ...

Brad Sigmon chose the method over the electric chair or lethal injection, the Associated Press reported. Idaho is one of five ...