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 ...
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 Kieth Sigmon wrote ahead of his execution.
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.
AP explains South Carolina’s first execution by firing squad in 15 years
Reporter Jeffrey Collins witnessed a South Carolina man convicted of murder executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method in 15 years.