Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in ...
Brad Sigmon, convicted of a brutal 2001 double murder, was executed by firing squad after fighting to avoid the electric ...
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 ...
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 ...
Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.