South Carolina prepares for first firing squad execution, ushering return of rare method
Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...
South Carolina Death Row Inmate Chooses to Be Executed by a Firing Squad
The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...
Lethal injection, electrocution and now firing squads. A look at US execution methods
Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an ...
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South Carolina to carry out first US firing squad execution since 2010
A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents has chosen to be put to death by firing squad next ...
As South Carolina prepares for a firing squad execution, here are how many have gone wrong
Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the history of firing squads in the U.S. ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution ...
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Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be ...
SC condemned inmate selects death by firing squad, a first since the state legalized it
Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the ...
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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 ...
Firing squad execution planned in South Carolina: Is the method making a return?
Brad Sigmon, set for execution by firing squad on March 7, seeks a delay, citing concerns over South Carolina’s lethal ...
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Condemned South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad
An inmate on South Carolina's death row has chosen to die ... when Ronnie Lee Gardner was put to death in Utah. “The choice Brad faced today was impossible,” his attorney, Gerald “Bo ...
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Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to ... U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All were in Utah, with the last one taking place in 2010. Sigmon will be strapped ...