Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more scheduled in the months ahead.

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

South Carolina’s execution chamber was the scene of a bloody, gruesome spectacle Friday when death row prisoner Brad Sigmon was killed in the first execution in the United States by firing squad ...

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. A South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in a fit of rage is set to become the ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001.

Jeffrey Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon. He has been a witness to 11 South Carolina executions.

A South Carolina man was executed by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010 and just the fourth firing squad execution since the death penalty resumed in ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday.