Brad Sigmon’s attorneys filed a motion on Wednesday after an autopsy report showed the last inmate's execution took more than 20 minutes

The bill would add nitrogen hypoxia to the list of alternatives to lethal injection available, alongside the electric chair.

Greenville city leaders are moving forward on plans to make improvements for walkers, drivers and neighbors. Sigmond chose the firing squad as oppossed to the electric chair or lethal injection.

An inmate on South Carolina's death row has chosen to die on March 7 by firing squad, his lawyer said Friday. Brad Sigmon, 67, who was convicted in 2002 of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, would be the first condemned prisoner to be executed by that method in South Carolina and the first inmate to die by firing squad in the U.

Sigmon is the first inmate in SC to select the state's newly implemented firing squad over lethal injection or electric chair.

Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7. On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state’s new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair.

The Tennessee Supreme Court set execution dates for Oscar Smith, Byron Black, Donald Middlebrooks and Harold Nichols.

PHOENIX - Arizona voters are a step closer to getting to decide if those sentenced to death are executed by the current lethal injection method or will instead face a firing squad. The state

Tennessee is expected to resume its death penalty soon, after executions were halted for years while the state's process was reviewed.

South Carolina plans to execute a man by firing squad, a method not used in the U.S. for 15 years. Since 1976, lethal injection has been the most common execution method, with issues leading states to explore alternatives like electrocution and lethal gas.

Arizona voters are a step closer to getting to decide if those sentenced to death are executed by a firing squad instead of lethal injection.