South Carolina Man, 67, to Be Executed by Firing Squad Tonight, the First in 15 Years, After Losing Last-Minute Appeal

Mar. 15, 2025

Photo:South Carolina Department of Corrections

South Carolina Department of Corrections

Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to go in front of a row of sharpshooters on Friday, March 7. He spent nearly a quarter century on death row, following a conviction for the 2001 murders of David and Gladys Larke — his ex-girlfriend’s parents, who he killed with a baseball bat.

On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court denied Sigmon’s eleventh-hour appeal for mercy, ruling the “exceptional circumstances” needed to delay an execution were not present, theGreenville News reports.

Sigmon had previously elected to die via firing squad instead of lethal injection or the electric chair. Witnesses will observe Sigmon’s execution through bulletproof glass,according to the Associated Press.

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Fifteen feet away, three officers with the state Corrections Department will point their rifles through a hole in a wall and open fire on Sigmon, the outlet reports. Witnesses will not be able to see the executioners nor learn their names.

source: people.com