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

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

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

A South Carolina death row inmate on Friday chose execution by firing squad, just five weeks after the state carried out its ...

Mikal Mahdi was sentenced to death for the killing of James Myers, a South Carolina police officer, and burning his body.

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriends parents and kidnapping her at gunpoint became the first person in South Carolina to be executed by firing squad in more than 15 years. Brad Sigmon ...