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

Jeffrey Collins, a reporter for The Associated Press, was one of the three media witnesses to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad. He has covered executions in South Carolina for decades.

It is unfathomable that, in 2025, South Carolina would execute one of its citizens in this bloody spectacle.” Sigmon is the first South Carolina death row inmate to die by firing squad.

When and where will Brad Keith Sigmon be executed? Sigmon is set to be executed just after 6 p.m. ET at the Broad River Correctional Institute in Columbia, South Carolina.

Collins has been a witness to 11 South Carolina executions during his nearly 25-year career with The Associated Press. Reporter describes what he saw I’ve now watched through glass and bars as 11 men ...

Protesters stand along Broad River Road, at the gates of the South Carolina Department of Corrections before the death, execution by firing squad, of Brad Sigmon in Columbia, S.C. Friday, March 7 ...

Inmates may choose between injections, electrocution or the firing squad. A hearse leaves the prison after the execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C.

9 Brad Sigmon, 67, has been executed by firing squad in South Carolina Credit: AFP 9 ...

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. This undated image provided ...

The Brief Brad Sigmon, a death row inmate in South Carolina, was the first person to die by firing squad in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon, 67, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered ...