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.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7 .

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.. The ...

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.

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 ...

South Carolina's first firing squad execution will involve a target, volunteer shooters and special bullets. March 4, 2025 / 12:06 PM EST / CBS/AP Biden didn't commute 3 death sentences .

In recent years, South Carolina became one of five states that have legalized firing squads as an execution method, most recently Idaho in 2023. "It's safe to say since 1858 we've never had this ...

He’ll be the first South Carolina death row inmate ever to be killed by a firing squad. If his appeals fail and Gov. Henry McMaster does not commute his sentence, Sigmon will be shot to death ...

Ralph Leroy Menzies, 67, is set to be executed Sept. 5 for abducting and killing Utah mother of three Maurine Hunsaker in ...

A South Carolina man is set to die by firing squad Friday evening, marking the nation’s first such execution since 2010.. Brad Sigmon, 67, chose the firing squad over death by lethal injection ...

Ralph Menzies was convicted of the 1986 murder of 25-year-old Maurine Hunsaker, a married mother of three who was found tied ...

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...