The state will still allow lethal injection for death-row prisoners if it's not possible to use the firing squad.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The firing squad chair in which Brad Sigmon will be strapped before three volunteers shoot him dead. South Carolina Department of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, seen here in 2011, houses male death row inmates. - Patrick Semansky/AP/File A death ...

An attorney for the first person likely to be executed in South Carolina in 13 years has chosen lethal injection for his method of death. The selection was made Friday by one of his attorneys, Emily ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC/AP) - The next inmate set to be put to death will be the first to die by firing squad in South Carolina. Brad Sigmon is set to be executed on March 7 for the 2001 baseball bat ...

A death row inmate in Louisiana who is scheduled to become the first person in the state to be executed using nitrogen gas has asked for his capital punishment to be carried out using a more “humane” ...