The South Carolina Department of Corrections uses a lethal injection protocol that was suspended by the Department of Justice over concerns that it might cause unnecessary pain and suffering.
a death row inmate was killed by firing squad in the U.S. Brad Sigmon is now the fourth prisoner nationwide to die this way. Channel 9′s Glenn Counts spent the day in Columbia, South Carolina ...
Brad Sigmon, the first U.S. inmate to be put to death by firing squad in 15 years, has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. The 67-year-old inmate was escorted into ...
A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method ...
The firing squad became legal in South Carolina in 2021, after the state passed a law that allowed death by electric chair or firing squad as options for people on death row. Inmates sued the ...
A convicted double murderer in South Carolina became the first American death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years — and ironically preached that the Bible doesn’t condone the killing ...
The 67-year-old inmate was escorted into South Carolina’s ... demonstrators protesting the death penalty. Taylor had known Sigmon since 2020. While on death row, he tithed his commissary funds ...
A convicted double murderer in South Carolina became the first American death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years — ...
South Carolina executed a death row inmate by firing squad Friday, the first time in modern history the method has been used in the state. The 67-year-old inmate, Brad Sigmon, was convicted of a ...
A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad in the first use of the method in the US for 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose to be killed by bullets, saying he feared the ...