Stephen Stanko, a convicted murderer, chose after courts denied him more information about South Carolina's firing squad and ...

Stanko has been on South Carolina’s death row since 2006. He was sentenced to death twice: Once in Georgetown County for the ...

Stanko has been on South Carolina’s death row since 2006. He was sentenced to death twice: Once in Georgetown County for the ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request for more information on the firing squad from an inmate set ...

Brad Sigmon become the first person in almost 15 years to be executed by a previously banned method earlier this year ...

Stanko, 57, is being executed for killing his 74-year-old friend ... During the state's first firing squad death, the autopsy found that Brad Sigmon's heart had been destroyed. Just one of the four ...

On Friday, South Carolina put Brad Sigmon to death for the 2001 murder ... And he is just the fourth person executed by firing squad in the past 50 years. In 2010 Utah used the firing squad ...

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 dead at 6:08 p.m. after ...

Wearing a black jumpsuit and black Crocs, double murderer Brad Sigmon, 67, shuffled into the fluorescent-lit 'death chamber' at 6pm on Friday for America's first execution by firing squad in 15 years.

By Jeffrey Collins Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press, was one of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad. He has covered executions in South ...