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 ...

A firing squad has executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer decades ago.

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

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.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the ...

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 ...

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate. Friday's execution will be the second time in the past five weeks the state will have carried out an execution using that method.