THE last words of the double murderer executed by firing squad as he was left gasping have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, ...
Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.
Randy Gardner speaks against the death penalty during a visit to Columbia, South Carolina, in advance of the scheduled ...
The last time a firing squad was used was in Utah in 2010 when Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed for killing a lawyer. Sigmon was sentenced to die in 2002 after beating his ex-girlfriends parents to ...
The last firing squad execution in the U.S. occurred in Utah, where Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed for killing an attorney decades earlier. The identities of the three shooters on the firing ...
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 consider it a more humane ...
Cutler in a Cleveland State Law Review article. The execution chamber at the Utah State Prison is seen after Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad, June 18, 2010, in Draper, Utah.
The was the 2010 exe­cu­tion of Ronnie Lee Gardner. Friday will mark the start of South Carolina’s first attempt to perpetrate an intentional fatal shooting of a prisoner. The resurrection of this ...
BOISE — The Idaho Senate on Wednesday voted 28-7 on a bill to establish the firing squad as the state’s primary method of execution. As of a 2023 law, the state currently uses the firing squad ...