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The execution was performed by a three-person firing squad at 6:01 p.m. He was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:05 p.m., the South Carolina Department of Corrections confirmed to CBS News.

— 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.

Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...