The inmate, Brad Sigmon, 67, was declared dead at 6:08 p.m. after a firing squad shot three bullets at the target placed over his heart, the State Department of Corrections said.
He was strapped to a metal chair in a corner of the room, sitting 15 feet from a wall with a rectangular opening. Behind that wall was the three-person firing squad, facing Mr. Sigmon through the opening.
Source: South Carolina Executes Inmate by Firing Squad – The New York Times