Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years, faces death this week.

For the past five years, no more than 24 executions occurred annually — but 2025 is already near that mark, with more scheduled in the months ahead.

Before Sigmon, no one had been put to death that way in the past 15 years. And he is just the fourth person executed by firing squad in the past 50 years.

South Carolina’s execution chamber was the scene of a bloody, gruesome spectacle Friday when death row prisoner Brad Sigmon was killed in the first execution in the United States by firing squad ...

Sigmon is the first South Carolina death row inmate to die by firing squad. After a decade with no executions, the state in 2021 legalized the firing squad and electric chair as alternatives to ...

Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. A South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in a fit of rage is set to become the ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001.

Jeffrey Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon. He has been a witness to 11 South Carolina executions.

Brad Sigmon, a South Carolina man, was executed by firing squad on Friday, becoming the first US prisoner in 15 years to be put to death by this method.

Double murderer Brad Sigmon becomes first US death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years A double murderer became the first US death row inmate to die by firing squad in 15 years — and ...

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 Sigmon was executed by means of a firing squad, making him the first person to die by that method in South Carolina and the first in the United States since 2003.