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 ...

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

The overhaul of South Carolina’s death chamber was completed three years ago. Now, a team of sharpshooters is practicing its aim for what is poised to be the first firing squad execution in the ...

When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday ...

AP South Carolina spent about $54,000 in 2022 constructing an area for a firing squad in its death chamber. It won’t be far from the electric chair. Bulletproof glass was installed on the ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to ... with the last one carried out 15 years ago. In the death chamber, Sigmon will be strapped to a chair and have a hood over his head and a target ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die ...

But, given South Carolina’s unnecessary and unconscionable ... over his head and a target placed over his heart in the death chamber. Three volunteers will fire at him through a small opening ...