Firing squad execution scheduled next week in South Carolina
South Carolina is scheduled next week to be the first state in 15 years and only the third in 49 to carry out an execution by ...
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South Carolina schedules a firing squad execution for next week; 1st in U.S. in 15 years
Brad Sigmon, 67, is on death row for the 2001 beating death with a baseball bat of his former girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County. He confessed that he was trying to kidnap his girlfriend and ...
South Carolina man set to face a firing squad seeks postponement
A South Carolina man who is scheduled to die next week by firing squad is again asking that his execution be postponed and ...
Greenville man condemned to death raises questions about lethal injection, requests stay
Brad Sigmon’s attorneys filed a motion on Wednesday after an autopsy report showed the last inmate's execution took more than ...
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As South Carolina prepares for a firing squad execution, here are how many have gone wrong
Opinion editor Matthew T. Hall explores the history of firing squads in the U.S. ahead of South Carolina’s planned execution of Brad Sigmon by bullet March 7.