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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Brad Sigmon had three options: die by firing squad, die by electrocution or die by a new lethal injection drug. He chose the firing squad. Mikal Mahdi made the same choice. South Carolina executed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prisoners executed by lethal injection in states like South Carolina are receiving corrosive chemicals that tear into the lungs, and the condemned could essentially die while drowning in their own ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...