Brad Sigmon used his final words, before he was executed via firing squad, to call upon fellow Christians to help end the death penalty, according to media witnesses. Brad Sigmon's official time ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed at 6:05 p.m ... The death row inmate's only remaining choice was a firing squad, an execution method with a long and violent history in the U.S. and around the ...

Kate Nalepinski is a Newsweek journalist based in New York City. Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. A South Carolina man convicted of a double murder is set to ...

The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, by the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Friday is only the fourth firing squad execution in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976 ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% ...

A death row inmate who bludgeoned his ex-girlfriend's parents to death with a baseball bat in 2001 has been executed after a final meal of KFC. Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at ...

The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected a request from an inmate set to die next month for more information on the ...

In the state's first firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon on March 7, three distinct wounds were found on his chest and his heart was heavily damaged, according to his autopsy report. The shots ...

Our politicians want tough-guy credit for killing killers, while detaching themselves from the reality of their decisions.

South Carolina has executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad, marking the first ever use of the controversial method in the state, ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in ... 2025 to protest Sigmon’s execution by firing squad, the first in South Carolina’s history. Ted Clifford A basin around the base of metal chair ...