The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions may go.

One month before Mahdi was shot, on March 7, another South Carolina death row prisoner, Brad Sigmon, became the first person to die by the state's firing squad. His lawyer said Sigmon believed the ...

Brad Sigmon, the first inmate executed by firing squad in the modern history of South Carolina, used his final statement to ...

Autopsy on first man killed by firing squad showed obliterated heart In contrast the autopsy on Brad Sigmon, the first man killed by firing squad in the state, showed three distinct bullet wounds ...

Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to execute 67-year-old death row inmate Brad Keith Sigmon Friday by firing squad, a method not used in the country in 15 years ...