Nitrogen gas has been used in four other executions, each in the state of Alabama, where the method — also known as nitrogen ...

Louisiana used nitrogen gas to put a man to death Tuesday, in the first state execution after a 15-year hiatus.

The South Carolina double murderer executed by firing squad was in “great spirits and ready to go join the Lord” as he faced his demise, his brother told The Post. Brad Sigmon, who became the ...

South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP A South Carolina man, who recently became the first person in the United States to be executed by a firing squad in 15 years, shared a passionate ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP/WCSC) - One of the media witnesses to Friday night’s execution, the first ever in the state to use a firing squad, provided his eyewitness account. Jeffrey Collins was one of three ...

The last words of a death row inmate who was the first in the US to be executed by firing squad in 15 years have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot by three prison guards at the Broad River ...

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 ...

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.

I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I've witnessed three different methods — nine lethal injections and an electric chair execution. I can still hear the thunk of the breaker falling 21 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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. Three volunteer prison employees ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method ...

The warden then read the execution warrant. Sigmon then took several deep breaths and the riflemen fired rounds of .308 Winchester TAP URBAN bullets at 6:05 p.m. A doctor confirmed Sigmon’s ...