South Carolina schedules its fifth execution in seven months
A man who shot and killed an off-duty police officer is scheduled to become the fifth person executed in South Carolina since ...
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Barbarians at the Death House Gate: the Firing Squad Returns to America
Brad Sigmon was executed to exhibit the power of the state over its citizens. By choosing to be put to death by firing squad, Sigmon forced the State of South Carolina to put this power on full and ...
We’re Really Doing Execution by Firing Squad Again?
Today four states—Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Utah—list the firing squad in their menu of execution methods. The Idaho Legislature just passed a law making the firing squad its primary ...
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South Carolina carries out execution by firing squad
As South Carolina prepared to carry out the first execution by firing squad in the U.S. since 2010, Catholic activists ...
Map Shows US States Allowing Firing Squad Executions
South Carolina executed Brad Sigmon by firing squad on March 7, marking its first use of the execution method.
South Carolina man executed by firing squad; first US prisoner killed this way in 15 years
A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...
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South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad for first time in US since 2010
Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) — A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in ...
Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes
An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South ...
South Carolina man went to his execution by firing squad in ‘great spirits,’ brother said
The South Carolina double murderer executed by firing squad was in “great spirits and ready to go join the Lord” as he faced his demise, his brother told The Post. Brad Sigmon, who became the first ...