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 ...

Sigmon argues that recent executions, including the January 31 execution of Marion Bowman, reveal that South Carolina’s ...

Lawyers filed a motion to halt proceedings to determine whether the information the state provides about its lethal injection ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents has chosen to be put to death by firing squad next ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared an overview of the protocols ahead of the state's first firing squad ...

Brad Sigmon, the Greenville man set to die by firing squad, has asked the South Carolina Supreme Court to reconsider his request to delay his March 7 execution. According to Supreme Court ...

Both the federal government and South Carolina carry out the lethal injections using a single drug, pentobarbital, a powerful sedative that some experts warn causes extreme pain and suffering when ...

A three-person firing squad of SCDC volunteers armed with rifles will fire through the opening in the wall. All three rifles will have live ammunition. An "aim point" will be placed above the inmate's ...

All three rifles will have live ammunition. An "aim point" will be placed above the inmate's heart by a member of the execution team, the SCDC said. There have been five executions in the United ...