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While North Carolina hasn’t carried out an execution since 2006, the bill would legalize additional ways to carry out the ...
A bill advancing in the state legislature Tuesday would allow people sentenced to death in North Carolina to choose between three options for their execution: lethal injection, electrocution, or ...
JOE Ingle swore he would never watch a friend die. But in 1988, he had to break that rule. Willie Darden, on Florida’s death ...
Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. He was declared dead at 6.08pm by on-site medical staff after ...
South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday for the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the fourth time this method was used in the United States ...
became the second death row inmate executed by the Palmetto State’s new firing squad after double murderer Brad Sigmon became the first person in 15 years be shot to death last month.
The state's execution protocols called for a hood to be pulled over Mahdi's head before three volunteer corrections staff shot him in the heart at the same time.
On March 7, Brad Sigmon was executed in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and only the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah. READ MORE: South Carolina prisoner is first ...
He is the second death row inmate to die by firing squad in South Carolina. The first was Brad Sigmon in March 2025. Mikal Mahdi was put to death on Friday after pleading guilty to murder in 2004.
April 11 (UPI) --South Carolina prison officials put a man to death by firing squad for the second time in just over a month when they executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday in Columbia. Mahdi was ...
Mahdi’s execution came a little over a month after Brad Sigmon was put to death March 7, in the first U.S. firing squad death in 15 years and the fourth since 1976. The others all occurred in Utah.