Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

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State officials maintain the method is constitutional. Mahdi's was the second execution by firing squad in the United States this year, following that of Brad Keith Sigmon in March, also in South ...

Brad Sigmon chose to be shot to death in South Carolina on March 7, becoming the first prisoner executed by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. A doctor pronounced Sigmon dead less than three ...

(RNS) — When 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was put to death on March 7 in South Carolina for the murder of his then-girlfriend's parents, it was the first time in 15 years that an execution in the United ...

A hearse leaves the prison after the execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. For the first time in 15 years a death row inmate in the U.S. was be ...

South Carolina’s execution chamber was the scene of a bloody, gruesome spectacle Friday when death row prisoner Brad Sigmon was killed in the first execution in the United States by firing squad ...

It is unfathomable that, in 2025, South Carolina would execute one of its citizens in this bloody spectacle.” Sigmon is the first South Carolina death row inmate to die by firing squad.

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Sigmon was born in South Carolina on November 12, 1957, as the eldest of five children. His mother, Virginia Wooten, was just 17 years old at the time of his birth and went on to have four more ...

Inmates may choose between injections, electrocution or the firing squad. A hearse leaves the prison after the execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C.

Brad Sigmon was executed by means of a firing squad, making him the first person to die by that method in South Carolina and the first in the United States since 2003. This undated image provided ...