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." ...

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 years after beating his ...

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, 67, was executed at 6:05 p.m. Friday, and pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m., according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. He had been strapped into a chair with a target ...

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

Supporters of Brad Sigmon and anti-death penalty activists gathered outside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina on March 7, 2025 to protest Sigmon’s execution ...

No state has had more executions since September than South Carolina. That’s one reason why opinion editor Matthew T. Hall ...

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 ...

I've now watched through glass and bars as 11 men were put to death at a South Carolina prison. None of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing squad death of Brad Sigmon on Friday night.