By Ryan Young, Devon M. Sayers and Michelle Watson, CNN Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been ...

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977. Sigmon's attorney called it a "bloody spectacle." ...

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A South Carolina death row inmate is set to be executed on Friday, March 7. Instead of the more traditional lethal injection, the inmate—Brad Sigmon, 67—has chosen to die by firing squad, a method ...

Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.

Four other states − Mississippi, Utah, Oklahoma, and Idaho − have legalized firing squads as an execution method, most recently Idaho in 2023. The last inmate in the U.S. to be killed by ...