A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Adam Luck, the former Chair of Oklahoma’s Board of Pardons and Parole and a former member of the Oklahoma Board of ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

The state now allows death row inmates to choose between lethal injection and firing squad, with the electric chair as the ...

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 convicted double murderer in South Carolina became the first American death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years — ...

As South Carolina prepares to execute a man by firing squad on Friday, here are the ways each state conducts capital punishment.

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the alternatives of the electric chair and lethal injection would risk a slower and more painful death. He was convicted of beating ...

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years.

Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, is set to be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 ...

Today, Lewis is a member of the Jews Against Gassing Coalition, a New Orleans-area group decrying the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say ...