Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

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 ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed by firing squad in South Carolina on Friday, the first U.S. execution by that method in 15 years, after killing his ex’s parents.

South Carolina’s execution chamber was the scene of a bloody, gruesome spectacle Friday when death row prisoner Brad Sigmon was killed in the first execution in the United States by firing squad ...

Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press, was one of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad. He has covered executions in South Carolina for decades.

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. A South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in a fit of rage is set to become the ...

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 ...

Brad Sigmon, a South Carolina man, was executed by firing squad on Friday, becoming the first US prisoner in 15 years to be put to death by this method. Three volunteer prison staff members fired ...

Just three convicts have been executed by firing squad in the US since 1976 - and all of them in Utah. Rebecca, Sigmon's ex, told USA Today she does not believe in the death penalty, but that he ...

Brad Sigmon was executed by means of a firing squad, making him the first person to die by that method in South Carolina and the first in the United States since 2003. This undated image provided ...

Randy Gardner holds 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 ...

Brad Sigmon, the first U.S. inmate to be put to death by firing squad in 15 years, has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents.