O n March 18, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced that the $53,600 renovation of its death chamber was complete.. For prisoners on death row who choose to face the firing squad ...

The firing squad was added as an option for the death penalty in 2021 following a nearly decade-long effort to restart executions after the South Carolina Department of Corrections ran out of the ...

With lethal injection drugs proving both costly and difficult to obtain, a growing number of Republican lawmakers and state ...

South Carolina's first scheduled execution by firing squad was scheduled for April 2022, but the state's highest court issued a temporary order to stop it from happening. Mississippi, Oklahoma and ...

South Carolina has given the green light for condemned prisoners in the state to be executed by firing squad. Final approval came Friday after the state Department of Corrections said renovations ...

Firing squad executes South Carolina inmate, first time in US since 2010 Undated image of Brad Sigmon, convicted of beating to death his estranged girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County in 2001.

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, Sigmon is set to become the first prisoner in the U.S. in 15 years to die by firing squad, the fourth to die that way since 1976 and the first ever so killed in South Carolina.

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky.

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky.