Sigmon chose the firing squad out of fear of more suffering if given a lethal injection or put in the electric chair Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to ...

Last week, we learned another hard lesson about executions, namely that there is no foolproof way of killing someone.

Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall writes that the state of South Carolina say everything went according to plan, but that’s not ...

Some U.S. politicians insist that the execution methods in their state are relatively painless. But it’s all a farce.