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Montevideo, April 11th 2025 - 08:20 UTC

Tag: Brad Keith Sigmon

  • Saturday, March 8th 2025 - 11:22 UTC

    Execution by firing squad in South Carolina carried out

    Three members of the victims' family were allowed to witness the proceedings

    South Carolina inmate Brad Keith Sigmon was executed by firing squad Friday for the 2001 murders of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the fourth time this method was used in the United States since the reintroduction of the death penalty and the first outside the State of Utah.

  • Friday, March 7th 2025 - 13:27 UTC

    South Carolina to perform rare firing squad execution

    Sigmon chose the firing squad out of fear of more suffering if given a lethal injection or put in the electric chair

    Barring any last-minute stay, the US State of South Carolina plans to execute 67-year-old death row inmate Brad Keith Sigmon Friday by firing squad, a method not used in the country in 15 years and which is believed to have been discontinued worldwide for about a decade.