Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. When his girlfriend of five years broke up with him, Brad Keith Sigmon snapped. Sigmon killed her parents, ...

A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. The execution of ...

This undated photo shows the death chamber in Columbia, South Carolina including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left. [AP Photo/South Carolina Department of Corrections] South ...

A South Carolina man convicted of murder was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner to die by that method in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. after being ...

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.

composite image left prison headshot of brad sigmon; upper right the firing squad chair lower right a lawyer during trial showing the bat sigmon used during the killing The South Carolina double ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Barring a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon will be led into South Carolina’s death chamber Friday evening. He will be strapped into a metal chair and, nearly 24 years after beating ...

COMING UP, I’LL SHOW YOU THE UP AND DOWN TEMPERATURES AHEAD. FIRST AT 11, A HISTORIC EXECUTION TONIGHT IN SOUTH CAROLINA. BRAD SIGMON CHOSE TO DIE BY FIRING SQUAD. THE FIRST IN THE STATE. THE ...

A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at ...