The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat to death ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...

Outside of the rifle crack, there was no sound." The South Carolina Department of Corrections headquarters is seen behind barbed wire fence. Death row inmate Brad Sigmon was executed March 7 ...

Brad Keith Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

It was South Carolina’s first firing squad execution since the ... Sigmon chose to die by firing squad in February, weeks after the Corrections Department received his execution order. He had to ...

The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, by the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Friday is only the fourth firing squad execution in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 ...

In 2022, the South Carolina Department of Corrections detailed the room setup and protocols for how a firing squad execution would be carried out. The rifles used by the three-member firing squad ...