South Carolina Inmate Chooses Firing Squad
South Carolina is now on track to carry out its first-ever execution by firing squad next month. Death row inmate Brad Sigmon, 67, chose the option over electrocution and lethal injection, reports the New York Times.
Condemned South Carolina killer chooses firing squad execution in what would be first use of that method in US in 15 years
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the U.S. in 15 years.
In first for state, South Carolina death row inmate elects to die by firing squad
In 2024, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that firing squad was a constitutional method of carrying out executions.
'Barbaric': Inmate chooses death by firing squad for execution in South Carolina next month
Brad Keith Sigmon is set to be executed by firing squad on March 7 for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, David and Gladys Larke.
South Carolina inmate chooses firing squad for execution, 1st in US in 15 years
A convicted murderer in South Carolina has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the U.S. in 15 years.
SC condemned inmate selects death by firing squad, a first since the state legalized it
Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2002 for fatally beating his ex-girlfriend's parents while trying to kidnap the woman in Greenville County in 2001.
Condemned South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad
Brad Sigmon chose bullets over lethal injection or the electric chair, "which would burn and cook him alive," his attorney said.
South Carolina man on death row chooses execution by firing squad
Brad Sigmon, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2002, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.
'Barbaric' method of execution in South Carolina draws fierce opposition
Nearly 15 years since the country's last firing squad death, an inmate in South Carolina elects to be shot to death.
Condemned South Carolina killer chooses to be executed by firing squad, AP Explains
Associated Press reporter Jeffrey Collins explains the process in which condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon will be executed after electing to die by a firing squad.
Upstate death row inmate chooses to die by firing squad
Brad Sigmon was convicted of brutally killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County in 2001. He beat the husband and wife with a baseball bat. They were in separate rooms of their home and Sigmon went back and forth attacking them as he realized each one was still alive, investigators said.
South Carolina Death Row Inmate Chooses to Be Executed by a Firing Squad
The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...
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Brad Sigmom was put on death row in 2001
"But the alternative is just as monstrous. If he chose lethal injection, he risked the prolonged death suffered by all three ...