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.
Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...
Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...
The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next ... if the prisoner in South Carolina’s previous execution, Marion Bowman, was given two doses of pentobarbital at his ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina inmate who is scheduled to die next week by firing ... Sigmon's attorney said autopsy results from Marion Bowman's Jan. 31 execution released earlier this week showed ...
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a ... because they wanted to learn if the prisoner in South Carolina's previous execution, Marion Bowman, was given two ...
Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed ... because they wanted to learn if the prisoner in South Carolina’s previous execution, Marion Bowman, was given two doses of pentobarbital ...