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.

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 ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...

Jeffrey Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon. He has been a witness to 11 ...

A South Carolina inmate is set to become the fifth person to be put to death since the state resumed executions in September after a 13-year pause.

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 ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method ...

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 ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen ... because they sought information on whether the last inmate executed by the state, Marion Bowman, was given two doses of the sedative pentobarbital ...

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 ...