The South Carolina Supreme Court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of condemned man Brad Sigmon, clearing the way ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on March 7.

A man is set to face execution by firing squad in South Carolina later this week. Brad Keith Sigmon, 76, was sentenced to ...

Brad Sigmon will be the first person executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the oldest person ever put to death in the state.

Some 46 prisoners have been executed by lethal injection and electrocution in South Carolina since 1985. Brad Sigmon’s ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment after fearing the electric chair would “burn and cook him alive, ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, has opted not to die by electrocution or lethal injection in his planned March 7 execution. The last firing ...

South Carolina on Friday is scheduled to put the first person to death by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, ...

It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...

Only three people have been executed by firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on ...