Brad Sigmon became the first person to be executed by firing squad in South Carolina and the first in the United States to die by this method since 2003. Witnesses reported the execution was swift ...

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.

It is unfathomable that, in 2025, South Carolina would execute one of its citizens in this bloody spectacle.” Sigmon is the first South Carolina death row inmate to die by firing squad.

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. A South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in a fit of rage is set to become the ...

He was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m., the witnesses said. "Brad’s death was horrifying and violent," Gerald “Bo” King, Sigmon's attorney and an execution witness, said in a statement.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed by a firing squad in South Carolina, marking the first use of this method in the US in 15 years. Convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001, Sigmon ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was the first person to choose execution by firing squad in 15 years - and faced his lethal punishment on Friday night.

Brad Sigmon was executed by means of a firing squad, making him the first person to die by that method in South Carolina and the first in the United States since 2003. This undated image provided ...

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 ...

Brad Sigmon's final moments were witnessed by WYFF 4 News team member Anna Dobbins. Sigmon's execution was the first time a firing squad was used in South Carolina history.

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 ...