Shortly after Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad, fellow death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has also chosen it.

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South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen to be executed via firing squad just weeks after Brad Sigmon was ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...

hold the ashes of his brother Ronnie the last death row inmate to be executed by firing squad during a protest outside the execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7 ...

Earlier this month, the state of South Carolina executed 67-year-old Brad Sigmon via firing squad for the 2001 killings of ...

I watched my client's execution by firing squad. He chose it after three lethal injection executions left men lingering on a ...

Mikal Mahdi, who pleaded guilty to murder for killing a police officer in 2004, is scheduled to be executed April 11.

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Florida may soon expand its approved methods of execution to include firing squads and nitrogen gas, following a wave of ...

The option of a firing squad was relatively new in South Carolina, where lethal injection and the electric chair also remain available choices for death row inmates. Mahdi’s decision is particularly ...