A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at ...

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Convicted Double Murderer Executed By Firing Squad In South Carolina Brad Sigmon was convicted of beating to death his estranged girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County in 2001. He was executed by ...

Stephen Bryant will have until Oct. 31 to choose if he wants to die by lethal injection, firing squad or in the electric ...

When the three executioners fired their high-powered rifles at him, Mikal Mahdi, who was sentenced to death for the execution-style murder of an Orangeburg police officer, yelled. Over the next 80 ...

COLUMBIA — Just a couple of months ago, Stephen Stanko was leaning toward being executed by gunfire. Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a request for more information on the firing squad from an inmate set to die next month over concerns about whether a man ...

A firing squad on Friday executed a South Carolina man who killed an off-duty police officer, the second time the rare execution method has been used by the state in the past five weeks. Mikal Mahdi ...