Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time ...

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing ...

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute. Skip to content. NOWCAST WYFF News 4 at 5.

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

A firing squad in South Carolina is set to execute a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times and set him on fire. Under the state's execution protocols, ...

A federal judge refused to halt the execution of Stephen Stanko, set for Friday, saying his lawyers provided no evidence that South Carolina’s lethal injection process causes unconstitutional pain.

A South Carolina man sent to death row twice for separate murders has been put to death by lethal injection in the state’s sixth execution in nine months ...

A federal judge doesn't plan to stop the execution of a South Carolina inmate in two days because the convicted man's lawyers didn’t have evidence of problems with the state’s lethal injection process ...

Mahdi's was the second execution by firing squad in the United States this year, following that of Brad Keith Sigmon in March, also in South Carolina. Those executions marked the first by firing squad ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.