Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing squad since 1976, with the last execution in 2010.
A South Carolina death row inmate has chosen to be executed by a firing squad next month rather than by lethal injection or ...
Sigmon is the first inmate in SC to select the state's newly implemented firing squad over lethal injection or electric chair ...
Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney ...
Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents ...
In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.
Brad Sigmon made the choice after the state Supreme Court denied a stay request based on questions about the effectiveness of ...
Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the woman in Greenville County in 2001.
Death row inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die by firing squad after being convicted for the deaths of his ex-girlfriend's ...
The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...