South Carolina death row inmate executed by firing squad, first in U.S. in 15 years - Brad Sigmon, 67, had a target placed in ...

Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...

How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. Shortly before ...

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson who is also the chair of the South Carolina Human Trafficking Task Force ...

Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010.

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The inmate in South Carolina chose the method because ...

After a spate of botched executions involving lethal injection, a condemned South Carolina man decided he'd prefer a firing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man is executed by firing squad, the first US prisoner killed by this method in 15 years. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material ...

For the first time since 2010, an inmate is being executed by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday, March 7.