The execution of Edward Thomas James, who raped and killed an 8-year-old girl and killed her grandmother in 1993, has been ...

Arizona's Grand Canyon, also playing in the men's and women's NCAA tournaments, started its Antelope nickname in 1949, later shortened to the Lopes. A hairy mascot known as the “Purple People Eater” ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed by firing squad on Friday after murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 1999 and chose to share his final meal with other inmates ...

A killer on death row has become the first US prisoner in 15 years to be executed by firing squad. Brad Sigmon, 67, was granted permission to choose the manner of his execution after comlaining he ...

A Death Row killer has made history as the first inmate to face execution by firing squad in 15 years, after he ate a final meal of three buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken alongside mashed potatoes ...

Going forward the court will allow an execution every five weeks. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row including two who have exhausted their appeals and are awaiting execution ...

In June 2021 Sigmon avoided “Old Sparky,” the 113-year-old electric chair housed at the Central Correctional Institution in Columbia, as the law gave death row inmates the statutory right to ...

In a final statement read before his death, Sigmon said he wanted his "closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty." "An eye for an ...

That’s not due to the obvious desire to dodge a state-sanctioned death entirely. Rather, the way the state has handled the matter has made it “impossible” for the prisoner “to assess which ...

ExploreForgotten and waiting to die: How Georgia left intellectually challenged men on death row for decades Most states, including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, Indiana ...