On Friday afternoon, the state of South Carolina carried out the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years . As a method of execution, the firing squad had been largely ...

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A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad early Friday evening – a method used for the first time in 15 years in ...

Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed his name on a bill Wednesday making Idaho the only state in the U.S. to have a firing squad designated as the preferred execution method for capital punishment, beginning ...

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When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won't be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder chose to be put to death by firing squad next month in what would be the first such ...

The death chamber inside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina contains both the metal chair used in execution by firing squad and the wooden electric chair. South ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier justice in the Old West. In modern times, some ...