Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the ...

A convicted murderer in South Carolina has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the U.S. in 15 years.

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.

In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.

South Carolina has executed 46 inmates since the death penalty was resumed in the U.S. in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state was carrying out an average of three executions per year. Only nine ...

Two states are set to see pauses on executions end as Arizona, Louisiana and South Carolina gave execution dates to three men ...

A death row inmate in South Carolina has chosen to die by firing squad. The convicted killer is scheduled to be executed on ...

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 ...

South Carolina went 13 years between executions ... to let anybody else have her,” he said in a confession. At his death penalty trial in 2002, Sigmon spoke to the jury before they deliberated ...