Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon’s ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.

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

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

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who is scheduled ... Sigmon is to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber and have a hood placed over his head and a target placed over his heart.

Sigmon’s attorneys filed a motion on Wednesday requesting a delay after the South Carolina Department of Corrections provided an autopsy report of Marion Bowman's death, the last person executed ...

This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.