Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the U.S. in 15 years.

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.

If Sigmon's execution moves forward, he will become the first inmate in South Carolina executed by firing squad in modern history and the fourth in the U.S. since 1977.

Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6pm on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.

Firing squad executes Brad Keith Sigmon in South Carolina in 'bloody spectacle' The execution was the first by firing squad in modern South Carolina history and the first in the U.S. since 2010 ...

ONE terrible night 24 years ago, factory worker Brad Sigmon stayed up smoking crack cocaine and planning violent revenge. He was going to kidnap girlfriend Rebecca Barbare who had jilted him after … ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to die the evening of March 7 for the brutal baseball bat beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents David and Gladys Larke in 2001.

THE last words of the double murderer executed by firing squad as he was left gasping have been revealed. Brad Sigmon, 67, was the first person to choose execution by firing squad in 15 years ...

Brad Keith Sigmon, who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s parents in South Carolina, opted for the firing squad over the electric chair and lethal injection.

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

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.