Unfortunately, the Spanish didn’t take too kindly to Rizal’s stance and sent him to the firing squad, though this only cemented his national hero status. An ophthalmologist by trade ...

Rizal was born in the provincial town of Calamba in 1861 and shot down by a Spanish-officered, native firing squad in Manila in 1896. I would like to acknowledge the enormous amount of help I have ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to die by firing squad Friday, a rare execution method in the United States that experts say may be making a comeback in more states as lethal injection drugs become ...

South Carolina has never executed somebody with by firing squad, um, you know, we've only had One or the other state apart from Utah that has executed an individual, and that was only one ...

South Carolina is set to execute Brad Sigmon by firing squad, the first such execution in the U.S. in 15 years. Firing squads have been used in America since 1608, mostly in Utah, with only three ...

The Idaho Legislature just passed a bill that would make the firing squad the primary method of execution in the state. It’s now up to the governor to sign it or veto it. Idaho Department of ...

By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night in the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

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.

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...

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. The execution ...