National Catholic Reporter1d
South Carolina carries out execution by firing squad
As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...
USA Today4d
Firing squad executes Brad Keith Sigmon in South Carolina in 'bloody spectacle'
A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern ...
South Carolina to carry out first firing squad execution in US in 15 years
By Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -South Carolina plans to execute a man ...
MercoPress4d
Execution by firing squad in South Carolina carried out
He wore his prison-provided uniform and was secured to a chair inside the execution chamber. “Unless he chose lethal injection or firing squad, he would die in the old South Carolina electric ...
Texas court delays execution of man on death row for 32 years, days before he was set to die
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday halted the execution of a man who has spent more than 30 years on death row and had been set to die by lethal injection this week over the killings of six girls and ...