Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.

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 ...

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." ...

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.

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method.

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 ...

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 ...