A South Carolina man was put to death by a firing squad Friday after being convicted of a 2001 double homicide. The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, marks the first time since 2010 that a firing ...

Brad Sigmon’s execution will be the first by firing squad. Just three inmates — in Utah in 1977, 1996 and 2010 — have faced a firing squad in the U.S. since the death penalty was reinstated ...

Supporters of Brad Sigmon and anti-death penalty activists gathered outside of the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina on March 7, 2025 to protest Sigmon’s execution ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.

Despite the associated blood and gore, the firing squad — condemned inmates like himself were told — offered a quick, sure and less-agonizing death than the state's alternatives of lethal injection ...

State officials maintain the method is constitutional. Mahdi's was the second execution by firing squad in the United States this year, following that of Brad Keith Sigmon in March, also in South ...