Overview

• Brad Sigmon, a 67-year-old convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, was executed in South Carolina by a firing squad on Friday evening.
• This marks the first use of a firing squad for execution in the United States since 2010 and the first in South Carolina since the method's reinstatement in 2021.
• Sigmon opted for the firing squad over lethal injection, citing fears of prolonged suffering based on past cases involving chemical executions in the state.
• The execution was carried out by three volunteer marksmen firing through slits in the chamber wall, with Sigmon pronounced dead three minutes after the shots.
• South Carolina is one of five U.S. states allowing firing squads as an execution method, alongside Utah, Idaho, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.