Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for ...

South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

If the execution is carried out as planned, Sigmon is to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber and have a hood placed ...

Brad Sigmon, set for execution by firing squad on March 7, seeks a delay, citing concerns over South Carolina’s lethal ...

Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976, with the last execution in 2010.

Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...

"Unless he elected lethal injection or the firing squad, he would die in South Carolina’s ancient electric chair, which would burn and cook him alive. But the alternative is just as monstrous." ...

In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.

Brad Sigmon is scheduled to die Friday in South Carolina. He was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat at their home in 2001. Lethal injection has been the ...