Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has ...

Associated Press reporter Jeffrey Collins explains the process in which condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon will be ...

A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

This undated image provided by shows Brad Sigmon, convicted of beating to death his estranged girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) ...

Attorneys for the state said the fluid is not unusual for executions by a large dose of pentobarbital and pointed out that witnesses said the inmates killed in South Carolina so far have only been ...

Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...

(South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP ... Freddie Owens, the first inmate killed with the new protocols, refused an autopsy for religious reasons. Lawyers for Sigmon said Moore ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years.