Man who wrote message in victim's blood chooses execution by firing squad

Bryant is being put to death for killing a man in his home. Investigators said he burned Willard "TJ" Tietjen's eyes with ...

Murderer who taunted cops with messages written in blood chooses execution by firing squad

Stephen Bryant, 44, a man on South Carolina's death row notorious for taunting investigators with a letter written in his ...
NBC 6 South Florida

South Carolina kills death-row prisoner in state's first firing squad execution

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at ...
Yahoo

Indiana hides executions. Firing squads would be more honest. | Opinion

Brad Sigmon had three options: die by firing squad, die by electrocution or die by a new lethal injection drug. He chose the firing squad. Mikal Mahdi made the same choice. South Carolina executed ...
The Republic

South Carolina man convicted of murdering two people gets a June execution date

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who was twice sentenced to die for killing two people nearly two decades ago was scheduled Friday to be executed on June 13. The state Supreme Court issued ...
Post and Courier

Lethal injection autopsies show extensive damage from corrosive drugs. State expert say it's normal.

Prisoners executed by lethal injection in states like South Carolina are receiving corrosive chemicals that tear into the lungs, and the condemned could essentially die while drowning in their own ...