A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...
Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.
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.
How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber ...
Friday's execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and only the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.
Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...
Visible in the same small room was the state's unused electric chair. The gurney used to carry out lethal injections had been rolled away. The volunteers all fired at the same time through ...
It won't be far from the electric chair. Reporters ... although prison officials say the glass separating the witness room from the death chamber is now bulletproof. Sigmon can give a last ...