If the execution is carried out as planned, Sigmon is to be strapped to a chair in the death chamber and have a hood placed over his head and a target placed over his heart. Three volunteers, all with live ammunition, would then fire at him through a small opening about 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.

Not much is known about the people who will fire the rifles. Prison officials said they have "completed all required training."

But the autopsies of Marion Bowman Jr and Richard Moore prove otherwise." Bowman's autopsy report was released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Monday, Feb. 24, according to ...

The South Carolina Department of Corrections shared an overview of the protocols ahead of the state's first firing squad execution.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen ... The autopsy report has been released for only one of the executions: Richard Moore, who prison officials say was given two large doses ...

Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976, with the last execution in 2010.

Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney said.

South Carolina Department of Cor Richard Moore’s took deep, snoring breaths as he lay strapped to the gurney inside of South Carolina’s death chamber on Nov. 1. Through IV lines connected to ...