Tag: south carolina

• Saturday, March 8th 2025 - 11:22 UTC

  Execution by firing squad in South Carolina carried out

  

  South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday for the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the fourth time this method was used in the United States since the reintroduction of the death penalty and the first outside the State of Utah.

• Friday, March 7th 2025 - 13:27 UTC

  South Carolina to perform rare firing squad execution

  

  Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to execute 67-year-old death row inmate Brad Keith Sigmon Friday by firing squad, a method not used in the country in 15 years and which is believed to have been discontinued worldwide for about a decade.

• Wednesday, December 26th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  Seven-year old girl tells president Trump she still believes in Santa Claus

  

  The seven-year-old girl whose phone call with President Donald Trump on Christmas Eve went viral has said she still believes in Santa Claus. Mr Trump threw doubt on the existence of Santa in the call with Collman Lloyd from Lexington in South Carolina.