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 man to be executed by firing squad
Getty Images South Carolina allows witnesses to observe executions carried out by the state. A South Carolina prison inmate convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat will…
Brad Sigmon: South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad for first time in US since 2010
Columbia, South Carolina CNN — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South…
South Carolina Inmate Set to Be Executed by Firing Squad
South Carolina is planning to execute a prisoner on Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method that has not been used in the United States since 2010.…
South Carolina Inmate Set to Be Executed by Firing Squad
South Carolina is planning to execute a prisoner on Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method that has not been used in the United States since 2010.…
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…
South Carolina Death Row Inmate Chooses to Be Executed by a Firing Squad
A South Carolina man on death row has chosen death by firing squad as his method of execution, his lawyer said on Friday. If his execution is carried out, he…
Ex-Deputy Describes Rampant Violence by Mississippi ‘Goon Squad’
In a series of interviews from prison, a former Mississippi sheriff’s deputy described for the first time how he and others in his department regularly entered homes without warrants, beat…
Could Trump Use the ‘God Squad’ to Override Environmental Law?
In at least two executive orders since he took office last week, President Trump has invoked a panel with a telling nickname: the God Squad. The committee is made up…