The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

COLUMBIA, South Carolina -- A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced ...

A South Carolina death row inmate who gruesomely killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Friday – the first execution of its ...

South Carolina has never executed somebody with by firing squad, um, you know, we've only had One or the other state apart from Utah that has executed an individual, and that was only one ...

An Indian woman who worked as a domestic helper in the United Arab Emirates has been executed after she was convicted of killing her employers' baby. Shahzadi Khan, who worked for an Indian couple ...

They began mass-executions of Jews by taking 3,400 Jewish men and women to the neighboring forest of Szczeparowiec on October 12, 1941 and machine-gunning all of them. About three weeks later ...

(AP Photo/Judi Bottoni, File) Arkansas state Rep. Jeff Wardlaw speaks to the House Judiciary Committee about a legislation that would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of execution methods the state ...

Shahjadi, a caregiver from Uttar Pradesh’s Banda district, was executed last month after a court found her guilty of allegedly murdering a child. “Prior to her burial, the authorised representatives ...

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Unfortunately for the pirates, all those years of fighting, drinking, debauchery, crime and plundering began to ebb away when during the 15th century the Admiralty decided to bring in Execution Dock.