O n March 18, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced that the $53,600 renovation of its death chamber was complete.. For prisoners on death row who choose to face the firing squad ...

The firing squad was added as an option for the death penalty in 2021 following a nearly decade-long effort to restart executions after the South Carolina Department of Corrections ran out of the ...

South Carolina has given the green light for condemned prisoners in the state to be executed by firing squad. Final approval came Friday after the state Department of Corrections said renovations ...

South Carolina's first scheduled execution by firing squad was scheduled for April 2022, but the state's highest court issued a temporary order to stop it from happening. Mississippi, Oklahoma and ...

South Carolina plans to execute its first prisoner by firing squad on March 7 inside the same death chamber it's used for dozens of other executions. Firearms experts say that could be risky.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the U.S. in 15 years.