Inmate Brad Sigmon chose death by firing squad, saying he has concerns about the drugs used in lethal injections.

The orders also may represent exceptional acts of retribution against lawyers who have crossed him in the past, they said.

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

Brad Sigmon, the South Carolina man who recently became the first person in the United States to be executed by a firing ...

Only five states allow firing squads for executions. But the firing squad isn’t the primary death penalty method in any of ...

A South Carolina man has been executed by firing squad, becoming the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by this method. Brad Sigmon was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. Friday after being shot by ...

How Friday's execution will unfold Death row inmates in South Carolina are housed in a building adjacent to the death chamber at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia. Shortly before ...

In part of his final statement, Brad Sigmon said, "I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty." ...

Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last firing squad execution in 2010.

After a spate of botched executions involving lethal injection, a condemned South Carolina man decided he'd prefer a firing ...

A man convicted of a double murder is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina Friday night by firing squad - a method that ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed ...