Convicted South Carolina killer becomes first inmate to choose firing squad for execution
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Condemned South Carolina inmate, Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the ...
South Carolina death row inmate chooses firing squad as execution method
A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or the electric chair.
State Supreme Court sets execution date for Greenville man convicted in 2001 double murder
Sigmon was convicted of murder in the 2001 deaths of David and Gladys Larke and the kidnapping of their daughter, Rebecca Barbre.  He was sentenced to death in July 2002.   Sigmon would be ...
South Carolina death row inmate chooses to be executed by firing squad
A South Carolina man on death row has chosen death by firing squad as his method of execution, his lawyer said Friday. If his ...
Condemned South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad
Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...
Convicted murderer set to become first SC inmate executed by firing squad
A South Carolina man scheduled to be executed in two weeks has chosen to die by firing squad. If the state respects the choice, he will be the first person in South Carolina’s history to be executed ...
In first for state, South Carolina death row inmate elects to die by firing squad
In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.
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How will death by firing squad be carried out in South Carolina?
The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared an overview of the protocols ahead of the state's first firing squad ...