As South Carolina plans to carry our the first firing squad execution in 15 years in the United States, Professor Deborah ...

Journalist Jennifer Dobner told the newspaper that, at first, it was difficult to tell if Ronnie Lee Gardner had died after four bullets struck him and blood began seeping through his navy blue ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

Carlisle, a news reporter, heard twin rifle shots then saw three holes appear in the jumpsuit of condemned state inmate Ronnie Lee Gardner. The bullets punctured a small piece of cloth with a ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.

Ronnie Lee Gardner becomes the third man to die by firing squad since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Four turnovers and a porous run defense were too much to ...

Randy Gardner, the older brother of Ronnie Lee Gardner who was executed via firing squad in Utah in 2010, said he was praying Friday's execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina is halted.

The most recent was Ronnie Lee Gardner in 2010, who was given the death penalty for killing a man during an attempted escape from a courthouse in 1985. South Carolina is one of only five states ...

A man whose brother was killed by firing squad in 2010 has spoken out against the execution of condemned inmate Brad Sigmon, scheduled for Friday. Randy Gardner, whose younger brother, Ronnie Lee ...