A firing squad in South Carolina on Friday executed a death row inmate who ambushed an off-duty police officer, shot him nine times and set him on fire in 2004.

Why states are turning to execution methods like firing squads and nitrogen gas 04:25. A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time ...

Lawyers for man executed by firing squad in South Carolina say bullets mostly missed his heart and he suffered in extreme pain for as long as a minute. Skip to content. NOWCAST WYFF News 4 at 5.

Along with Sigmon’s firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. South Carolina now has 28 inmates on its death row.

A South Carolina firing squad tried to shoot a convicted cop killer in the heart and missed in a “botched” execution that left him in “excruciating” pain as he bled out, according to an ...

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Stephen Stanko, 57, was pronounced dead at 6:34 p.m. local time on Friday, June 13, according to a statement released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC). Stanko had been sentenced ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks.

Along with Sigmon's firing squad death last month, three other South Carolina prisoners have been executed via lethal injection since September. The state now has 26 inmates on its death row.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare Read More Skip to content Boston News, Weather ...