Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing squad execution was carried out by Utah in 2010.

Twenty-eight states as well as the U.S. military and U.S. government authorize the use of lethal injection, in which an inmate has a deadly mixture of drugs injected into them as they are strapped to a gurney.

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 in Utah.

A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents has chosen to be put to death by firing squad next month in what would be the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state’s new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All were in Utah, with the last one ...

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.

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Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the woman in Greenville County in 2001.

Brad Sigmon, set for execution by firing squad on March 7, seeks a delay, citing concerns over South Carolina’s lethal injection process. If carried out, it would be the first U.S. firing squad execution since 2010.

The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared an overview of the protocols ahead of the state's first firing squad execution.

Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to ... U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All were in Utah, with the last one taking place in 2010. Sigmon will be strapped ...