South Carolina went 13 years between executions before restarting them last year in part because the state couldn't obtain drugs for lethal injections. A shield law passed in 2023 keeps private the supplier and manufacturer of the drug, the people who carry out the execution and the method they use.

Brad Sigmon was convicted of beating the parents of his ex-girlfriend to death with a baseball in Greenville County, South Carolina

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state’s suddenly busy death chamber. The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon’s lawyers to delay setting a date for his death until they get autopsy results from the inmate killed in last week’s lethal injection,