One of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon in South Carolina on Friday describes what he saw.

South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.

The governor’s action comes less than a week after Brad Sigmon, 67, of South Carolina, was executed by way of a firing squad ...

Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...

Everything about this barbaric, state-sanctioned atrocity—from the choice to the method itself—is abjectly cruel. We should not just be horrified—we should be furious.” ...

Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, ...

By Jeffrey Collins Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press, was one of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad. He has covered executions in South ...

Utah killer Ronnie Lee Gardner opted to be executed by a firing squad when he was sentenced to death and he gave a strange ...

South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday for the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's ...

Idaho ’s governor signed into law a bill Wednesday making the firing squad the state’s primary method of execution. Joan ...

Brad Sigmon was convicted of the double killing of the parents of his girlfriend David and Gladys Larke in 2001 before he ...