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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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, 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 ...

“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 ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead ... South Carolina law requires death row inmates to select their own method of execution — lethal injection, electric chair or firing squad.

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 justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon's lawyers to delay setting a date for his death until they get autopsy results from the inmate killed in last week's lethal injection ...

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 ...