Firing Squad Execution Witness Recounts Experience: A Rifle Crack, Then Silence
I’ve now watched through glass and bars as 11 men were put to death at a South Carolina prison. None of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing…
South Carolina to conduct first US firing squad execution in years – NBC10 Philadelphia
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…