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 ...

The Brief. Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon, 67, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed nationwide in 1976.

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, convicted in a 2002 double murder, chose a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010.

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 ...

Brad Sigmon has been executed by firing squad. He had used his final words to call upon Christians to end the death penalty. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Barring a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon will be led into South Carolina’s death chamber Friday evening. He will be strapped into a metal chair and, nearly 24 ...

The firing squad will aim and fire on Sigmon through a rectangular opening in a wall of the death chamber 15 feet away. During lethal injections, the IV lines have similarly been described as ...