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 ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive,” his attorney Gerald King wrote in a statement. He also rejected a ...

Everybody in the room flinched', says witness to Brad Sigmon's execution by firing squad A South Carolina man convicted of bludgeoning his ex-girlfriend's parents to death has become the first US ...

The attorney for Brad Sigmon — who is set to die at 6 p.m. — argued during a final appeal to the South Carolina Supreme Court that his client was never given information about the lethal ...

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 ...