Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...

Even so, his execution would not have been particularly noteworthy except for the fact that it was carried out by firing squad. Before Sigmon, no one had been put to death that way in the past 15 ...

As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...

The 67-year-old man chose the firing squad because, his lawyers said, he considered it a better option than the electric ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

The South Carolina double murderer executed by firing squad was in “great spirits and ready to go join the Lord” as he faced ...

Jeffrey Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon. He has been a witness to 11 ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Columbia, S.C. The state of South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday night in the first such execution in the United States since 2010.

A South Carolina man convicted of murder is scheduled to be executed by firing squad Friday night. Brad Sigmon beat to death ...

A South Carolina man is facing execution by firing squad Friday — the first execution of its kind in the U.S. since 2010.