Brad Sigmon became the first man to die by firing squad in 15 years. NBC News’ Zinhle Essamuah reports on the three-person squad that executed him Friday night.March 8, 2025 ...

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

A South Carolina death row inmate who gruesomely killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 is scheduled to be executed by firing squad on Friday – the first execution of its ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...

Sigmon, 67, became the first inmate in South Carolina to be executed by firing squad and only the fourth person in the U.S. to die by this method in the last 15 years. Despite last-ditch efforts ...

(South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP) This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric ...