Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...

UPDATE at 6:23 p.m.: Officials confirmed the historic firing squad execution has been carried ... King added.“The only choice that remained is the firing squad. Brad has no illusions about what ...

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.

Sigmon had a choice between lethal injection, the firing squad or the electric chair. King said Sigmon had chosen the firing squad after being placed ... which also carried out two others, one ...

The execution also signified South Carolina’s first-ever use of the method, expanding beyond the electric chair and lethal injection ... defender Gerald “Bo” King previously told The ...

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He chose to die by firing squad, citing fears about the electric chair ... carried out in the U.S. last year. Five have already been carried out in 2025, per the Death Penalty Information Center ...

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the firing squad or the electric chair as his manner of execution. Gerald "Bo" King, one of his lawyers, said Sigmon had chosen the firing squad after being placed in an "impossible" position ...