For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

On March 7, Brad Sigmon was executed in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and only the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah.

Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death in South Carolina on March 7 and was the first prisoner executed by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon died less than three minutes after three ...

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

In early March, the South Carolina Department of Corrections executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad, marking the first-ever execution by that method in the state and the fifth overall since the ...