Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

While South Carolina reasserted itself as the gold standard in the SEC on Sunday, Texas was forced to settle for silver in ...

The bullet provides rapid expansion and fragmentation, Shain added. Unlike South Carolina, Utah uses a five-member firing squad with .30-caliber rifles loaded with two rounds. The five shooters ...

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a bat, will become the first person ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

A South Carolina convict who brutally killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

The Texas Longhorns were blown out by South Carolina in the SEC women's basketball tournament Sunday afternoon, a 64-45 ...

The South Carolina Gamecocks have plenty of hype entering the spring practice portion of the offseason. We take a look at the ...