The first firing squad execution in over 15 years was carried out last month. It provides a glimpse into how such executions ...

Mikal 41, chose the firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. South Carolina is one of five states that ...

A few more details are known about South Carolina's firing squad as the state prepares to carry out its second execution by ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

South Carolina death row inmate Mikal Mahdi has chosen to be executed via firing squad just weeks after Brad Sigmon was ...

South Carolina is set to execute 42-year-old Mikal Mahdi by firing squad for killing an off-duty police officer who was ...

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He was going to kidnap girlfriend Rebecca Barbare who had jilted him after five years. But it didn’t play out like that. He ended up bludgeoning her parents to death with a baseball bat and ...

Brad Keith Sigmon never denied his guilt. He never claimed to be innocent in the 2001 murders of Gladys and David Larke, the parents of his former girlfriend. He didn’t claim ineffectiveness of ...

In just days before his scheduled execution, one South Carolina inmate on death row has filed a petition for clemency with ...

(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 ...