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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HIRING SQUAD EXECUTION SINCE 2010 SIGMUND H The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared an overview of the protocols ahead of the state's first firing squad execution.(Video above ...

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 ...

“This raises grave concerns: that during all three of SCDC’s recent executions, the drugs were either not properly administered, not reliable and effective, or all of the above,” according ...

FILE - This March 2019 photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's electric chair in Columbia, S.C. (Kinard Lisbon/South Carolina Department of Corrections via ...