Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2002, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.

Nearly 15 years since the country's last firing squad death, an inmate in South Carolina elects to be shot to death.

An inmate on South Carolina's death row has chosen to die on March 7 by firing squad, his lawyer said Friday. Brad Sigmon, 67, who was convicted in 2002 of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, would be the first condemned prisoner to be executed by that method in South Carolina and the first inmate to die by firing squad in the U.