First firing squad execution in 15 years is carried out in South Carolina – CBS News Watch CBS News South Carolina has conducted the first firing squad execution in the U.S. in over a decade. Brad Sigmon was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. last night, three minutes after sharpshooters fired their rifles. Here’s why he…
I’ve now watched through glass and bars as 11 men were put to death at a South Carolina prison. None of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing squad death of Brad Sigmon on Friday night. I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I’ve witnessed three different methods – nine lethal injections and…
Hannah Thompson, 17, was on the run, heading out of Simpsonville, South Carolina with her boyfriend, U.S. Army soldier John Blauvelt. On Oct. 26, 2016, Cati Blauvelt, his wife of just a few months, had been found stabbed to death, her body left in a concrete box in an abandoned farmhouse. The knife blade broken…
Why execution by firing squad is a legal option – CBS News Watch CBS News For the first time in 15 years, a death row inmate was executed by a firing squad. Authorities gave Brad Sigmon, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents, three options to die — firing squad, the electric chair and lethal injection. He…
A South Carolina man is facing execution by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010 and just the fourth firing squad execution since the death penalty resumed in the country 49 years ago. When the clock strikes 6 on Friday evening, 67-year-old Brad Sigmon is scheduled to walk…
When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won’t be lethal injection or electrocution that ends his life. It will be three people holding rifles about 15 feet away who will complete his punishment in what will be the United…
At least 17 wildfires were actively burning Monday in North and South Carolina, where blazes that erupted over the weekend forced evacuations and a state of emergency. The largest of them, in the Carolina Forest area near Myrtle Beach, spread over 1,600 acres in just a couple of days and remained largely uncontained as of officials’…
Celebrities who live in Charleston, South Carolina, will likely remain unimpacted by the wildfires that ignited across the state over the weekend. Why It Matters More than 175 fires were burning in South Carolina on Sunday, prompting Governor Henry McMaster to declare a state of emergency. Since then, nearly all of the fires have been…
Brush fires that erupted amid dry and windy conditions caused officials in both North and South Carolina to order evacuations Saturday. A fire in North Carolina’s Polk County was burning at least 400 acres and was at zero containment, according to Jeremy Waldrop with the North Carolina Fire Service. Waldrop said that structures could be…
It was just after 1 a.m. on May 7, 2023, when authorities responded to a reported road accident on a secluded dead-end street in Greenwood, South Carolina. At the edge of the nearby woods, they would find 46-year-old Davis McClendon‘s body. But what they saw at first was on the road itself: a shirt, a…