Lawyers for a South Carolina inmate set to be put to death next month want the state Supreme Court to stop his execution, ...

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

Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977. Sigmon's attorney called it a "bloody spectacle." ...

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

Barring a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon will be led into South Carolina’s death chamber Friday evening. He will be ...

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.

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

Brad Sigmon's official time of death by firing squad was at 6:08 p.m. ET, according to Maayan Schechter, for South Carolina Public Radio. The prison employees, who had all volunteered to carry out ...

Three volunteer corrections staff members will point rifles at Sigmon's chest and fire live rounds as he sits strapped to a chair, a hood over his head.

The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, by the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Friday is only the fourth firing squad execution in the US since capital punishment was reinstated 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 ...