Brad Sigmon, the first inmate executed by firing squad in the modern history of South Carolina, used his final statement to ...

The execution is scheduled 40 days after Brad Sigmon's execution by firing squad on March 7, his attorneys said. "Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices, Mikal Mahdi has chosen the lesser of ...

The March 7 execution of Brad Sigmon marked the first execution by firing squad since 2010. Before Sigmon, only three people i the U.S. had been executed by firing squad since the 1970s.

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 ...

Everybody in the room flinched', says witness to Brad Sigmon's execution by firing squad A South Carolina man convicted of bludgeoning his ex-girlfriend's parents to death has become the first US ...

He will be the first inmate to be executed in the state since Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death on March 7. A doctor pronounced Sigmon dead less than three minutes after three bullets tore ...

Brad Sigmon was shot to death just after 18:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Friday by three state corrections department volunteers firing rifles at his chest with specially designed bullets.