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 ...

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. When his girlfriend of five years broke up with him, Brad Keith Sigmon snapped. Sigmon killed her parents ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed at 6:05 p.m. Friday ... The death row inmate's only remaining choice was a firing squad, an execution method with a long and violent history in the U.S. and around ...

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 ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. A South Carolina man convicted of a double murder is set to ...

Brad Sigmon used his final words, before he was executed via firing squad, to call upon fellow Christians to help end the death penalty, according to media witnesses. Brad Sigmon's official time ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. He was declared dead at 6.08pm by on-site medical ...

A prisoner on South Carolina’s death row is scheduled this week to die by firing squad, the state’s first-ever use of that execution method. Brad Keith Sigmon, convicted of double murder ...

South Carolina has executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad, marking the first ever use of the controversial method in the state, ...

Shortly after it was announced that Brad Sigmon had been excuted via a firing squad, protesters quietly lined the fence, holding various signs, in front of the Broad River Correctional Institution ...

COLUMBIA — In the last minute of his life, as he waited for the bullets to pierce his heart, Brad Sigmon was still. He sat restrained from forehead to ankles, a black hood pulled over his face.