By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night in the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years. Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 in Utah. By Eduardo Medina A South Carolina man on death row has chosen ...