Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes
An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South ...
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Execution by firing squad in South Carolina carried out
South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday for the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's ...
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Man Executed By Firing Squad For First Time In US In Last 15 Years
The details of South Carolina’s lethal injection method are kept secret. Sigmon had unsuccessfully petitioned the state ...
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South Carolina to perform rare firing squad execution
Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to execute 67-year-old death row inmate Brad Keith Sigmon ...
South Carolina man executed by firing squad; first US prisoner killed this way in 15 years
A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that ...
South Carolina man called for end of death penalty before execution in final statement
I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty,” Brad ...
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The US killed someone by firing squad for the 1st time in 15 years. Here’s a look at the history
It was a punishment for mutiny in colonial times, a way to discourage desertion during the Civil War and a dose of frontier ...
Death row inmate killed by three-man firing squad after requesting the rare execution method not used for 15 years
Double murderer Brad Sigmon was put to death in South Carolina on Friday by a three-man firing squad for killing William and ...
South Carolina puts Brad Sigmon to death in first US firing squad execution since 2010
Everything about this barbaric, state-sanctioned atrocity—from the choice to the method itself—is abjectly cruel. We should not just be horrified—we should be furious.” ...
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Letter to the Editor: The moral urgency of abolishing the death penalty
Imagine being given a choice on how you die, but the options are limited to electrocution, lethal injection or a firing squad ...
Witness describes what he saw after watching death row inmate executed by three-man firing squad
A witness has described what he saw after watching a death row inmate executed using a rare method on Friday (7 March). Brad ...
The bullseye on his chest disappeared as three shots rang out – inside the US’s first firing squad execution in 15 years
ONE terrible night 24 years ago, factory worker Brad Sigmon stayed up smoking crack cocaine and planning violent revenge. He was going to kidnap the girlfriend who had jilted him after five years.