Firing Squad, South Carolina and the execution

South Carolina Executes Inmate by Firing Squad
The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said.
Map Shows US States Allowing Firing Squad Executions
South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.
South Carolina to carry out first firing squad execution in US in 15 years
By Aleksandra Michalska and Jonathan Allen COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) -South Carolina plans to execute a man convicted of two murders by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the U.
Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes
An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina.
South Carolina will execute Brad Sigmon by firing squad. Here’s how it will be done
Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in the state.
In a first for the state, South Carolina executes man by firing squad
A death row inmate and convicted killer in South Carolina has been executed by firing squad on March 7. It's the first execution by firing squad in the state.
A South Carolina man is set to become the first executed by firing squad in 15 years
A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat to death his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat as part of a botched kidnapping plan in 2001.
We’re Really Doing Execution by Firing Squad Again?
Even so, his execution would not have been particularly noteworthy except for the fact that it was carried out by firing squad. Before Sigmon, no one had been put to death that way in the past 15 years.
Death by firing squad
South Carolina, executed a convicted double murderer...by firing squad.This is the draconian law, required by South Africa...to sharply reduce the murderous criminality in the country.The death sentence was foolishly abolished by the ANC
South Carolina kills death-row prisoner in state's first firing squad execution
Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...
Opinion
After a rare execution by firing squad, a fresh call to abolish the death penalty | Editorial
Maintaining a system that risks killing the innocent along with the guilty is itself a crime — and one that underscores the need to do away with capital punishment.
South Carolina executes first inmate to die by firing squad since Utah did it in 2010
Columbia, S.C. • The state of South Carolina executed a prisoner Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method ...
Man Who Was Executed by Firing Squad for the First Time in the U.S. Since 2010 Shared a Passionate Plea as His Final Words
Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who recently became the first person in the United States to be executed by a firing ...
South Carolina carries out first firing squad execution in US in 15 years
South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...