Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on Friday.

A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing ...

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

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

A South Carolina man on death row for murder has chosen to be executed by a firing squad. Inmate Brad Sigmon is scheduled to die March 7, and will be the first person to be executed in the U.S ...

In South Carolina's first firing squad execution, the three bullets completely destroyed Brad Sigmon's heart. With Mahdi, an autopsy found that two bullet paths hit his organs and damaged one of ...

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more ...