No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...
A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, ...
Barring a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon will be led into South Carolina’s death chamber Friday evening. He will be strapped into a metal chair and, nearly 24 years after beating his ...
If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.
Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...
Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977. Sigmon's attorney called it a "bloody spectacle." ...
A convicted double murderer in South Carolina became the first American death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years — and his execution was the first of its kind to be performed in the ...
Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...
A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.
Brad Sigmon has been executed by firing squad. He had used his final words to call upon Christians to end the death penalty. Newsweek's live blog is closed.
A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...