Her children have not told her of Brad’s execution nor do they plan to, Mike told The Post. Mike Sigmon said his brother, who was captured in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 11 days after the murders ...

I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I've witnessed three different methods — nine lethal injections and an electric chair execution. I can still hear the thunk of the breaker falling 21 ...

The Supreme Court denied a death row inmate’s last-ditch effort to avoid execution Friday night, clearing the way for the first execution by firing squad in the United States in 15 years.

Governor Henry McMaster declined to grant Sigmon clemency Friday evening. Sigmon's execution, carried out by firing squad, marks a historic moment, not just for South Carolina but for the entire ...

The last time such an execution took place was 15 years ago, in Utah. The South Carolina inmate chose the method because of his concerns about lethal injection, his lawyer said. By Eduardo Medina ...

On Thursday, Sigmon asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay his execution because the state doesn’t release enough information about the lethal injection drug. The firing squad has a long and ...

A Baltimore judge ruled Thursday that Adnan Syed, who was featured in the “Serial” podcast more than a decade ago, does not have to return to prison and will remain on five years of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man convicted in a double murder in 2002 died Friday by firing squad, a rarely used execution method never before carried out by the state. Brad Sigmon ...

UPDATE (March 7, 2025, 6:43 p.m. ET): A South Carolina official said Brad Sigmon was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. ET on Friday, in South Carolina’s first execution by firing squad. UPDATE (March ...

A Baltimore judge ruled Thursday that Adnan Syed, who was featured in the popular "Serial" podcast and whose murder conviction was recently reinstated, does not have to return to prison.

Adnan Syed, whose criminal conviction was made famous in the hit true-crime podcast Serial, will not have to serve any additional jail time after being resentenced in the murder of his ex ...

Adnan Syed will remain free despite his conviction for the 1999 murder of his high school ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, a Maryland judge ruled. In a court order Thursday, Judge Jennifer Schiffer ...