COLUMBIA - Condemned inmate Brad Sigmon chooses firing squad execution over lethal injection or electric chair, citing ...

Strapping a man to a chair and shooting him is murder,” columnist Issac J. Bailey writes. “It’s not justice even if it’s supposedly done in the name of the government.” ...

to face the firing squad. All eight refused blindfolds; choosing to look their executioners in the eyes. Their worship was cut short by gunfire. "They were praising their God," Vega said of the ...