I have just finished reading General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s 420-page autobiography, A Journey in Service, a bold, lucid ...

The spot where Ceausescu, the Romanian despot was executed is to be turned into a museum. THE grim barracks where Romania’s brutal communist despot Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena ...

Nicolae Ceausescu took over control of the country and was ... he was finally held to account by a special military tribunal and sentenced to death. He and his wife were executed by a firing squad on ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution ...

Sigmon executed by firing squad in South Carolina Execution method chosen due to fear of electric chair, lethal injection Supreme Court denied Sigmon's petition to halt his killing COLUMBIA ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad in the first use of the method in the US for 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the ...

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 ...

Death by firing squad and medical-aid in dying, taking an oral solution of drugs mixed with apple juice, are alternative execution methods that would be more “humane,” Hoffman’s attorneys said.

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 history ...