Brad Sigmon has been executed by firing squad. He had used his final words to call upon Christians to end the death penalty. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The legal team for Brad Sigmon has filed a motion for a stay of execution Thursday and a petition for a writ of habeas corpus.

Unless the governor or the U.S. Supreme Court grants him a last-minute reprieve, Brad Sigmon, 67, will be the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010 — and just the fourth ...

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed nationwide in 1976.

Three volunteer South Carolina prison employees will be the firing squad used to execute condemned killer Brad Sigmon on Friday.

Brad Sigmon is only the fourth person executed by firing squad in the United States since the death penalty resumed nationwide in 1976.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad.

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, and would be first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years.

Lawyers for Brad Sigmon said he is being forced to choose a violent death by firing squad because without more information he thinks he could die a tortuous death if he picked lethal injection.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murders of his ex-girlfriend’s parents, Gladys and David Larke South Carolina Department of Corrections A date has been set for a man who ...

Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die by a firing squad.