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If you or someone you know has been affected, click here to get six months of Slate Plus free. On Friday, South Carolina put Brad Sigmon to death for the 2001 murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents.

Sigmon, 67, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 bludgeoning deaths of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. He chose the firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection due to his ...

Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press, was one of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad. He has covered executions in South Carolina for decades.

Sigmon, 67, became the oldest person to be executed in South Carolina. He chose death by firing squad over two more common methods: lethal injection and the electric chair.

The firing squad team − three voluntary corrections staff − will stand behind a wall with loaded rifles 15 feet from Sigmon. The wall will have an opening for the weapons.

In the two weeks since I knew how Brad Sigmon was going to die, I read up on firing squads and the damage that can be done by the bullets. I looked at the autopsy photos of the last man shot to ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...

I've now watched through glass and bars as 11 men were put to death at a South Carolina prison. None of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing squad death of Brad Sigmon on Friday night.

Brad Sigmon, a South Carolina man, was executed by firing squad on Friday, becoming the first US prisoner in 15 years to be put to death by this method. Three volunteer prison staff members fired ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at 6.08pm on Friday after three state corrections department volunteers armed with rifles lined up behind a wall about 15 feet (4.6 metres) away and fired off ...

Just three convicts have been executed by firing squad in the US since 1976 - and all of them in Utah. Rebecca, Sigmon's ex, told USA Today she does not believe in the death penalty, but that he ...