South Carolina allows inmates to choose firing squad, lethal injection or electric chair, and an execution as recent as Jan. 31 created questions about doses needed.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The scheduled execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina is set to be the first firing squad execution in the U.S. since 2010 and only the fourth since the death penalty was ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed and prison officials release more information about ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents has chosen to be put to death by firing squad next month in what would be the first such execution in the US since 2010.

Brad Sigmon, 67, is to be executed on March 7 at a prison in Columbia, the South Carolina capital, for the 2001 murders of David and Gladys Larke, who were beaten to death with a baseball bat.

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents has chosen to be put to death by firing squad next month in what would be the first such execution in the United States since ...