Inmate Stephen Stanko was leaning toward a death by firing squad but changed his mind when he couldn't get more details about ...

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge Wednesday refused to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate scheduled to die in two days, saying the prisoner’s lawyers didn’t have evidence ...