Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years.

A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" has been granted the opportunity to choose the manner of his execution. Brad Sigmon, 67, killed the ...

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina contains both the metal ...

For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

Sigmon's lawyers said he chose the firing squad because the electric chair would "cook him alive," and he feared that a lethal injection of pentobarbital into his veins would send a rush of fluid ...

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...

The state now allows death row inmates to choose between lethal injection and firing squad, with the electric chair as the ...

On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state's new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing ...