The Brief. Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon, 67, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered ...

Sigmon and Owens are two of 35 people on South Carolina's death row list. Sigmon has been at his current facility, Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, since July 2019.

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

“Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,” Brad Sigmon testified at his trial in July 2002. “I am guilty.” The South Carolina killer was placed on death row after pleading guilty to the double ...

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010 — and just the fourth ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United ... After 24 years on death row, Sigmon’s supporters had said that he was a very different man from the one who beat ...

Brad Sigmon, 63, is scheduled for an execution on June 18, according to a South Carolina Supreme Court execution notice signed Thursday. Sigmon and another death row inmate, ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murders of his ex-girlfriend’s parents, Gladys and David Larke South Carolina Department of Corrections READ MORE South Carolina Death Row ...

Brad Sigmon's execution date is currently March 7. ... But since the unintentional pause, the death row population has dwindled to 29 currently, compared with 63 in early 2011.

The Utah Department of Corrections is now officially preparing for the firing squad execution of Ralph Leroy Menzies, the ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murders of his ex-girlfriend’s parents, Gladys and David Larke South Carolina Department of Corrections READ MORE South Carolina Death Row ...