US conducts first firing squad execution in 15 years

Sixty-seven-year old Brad Keith Sigmon, an inmate at the South Carolina Department of Corrections in the United States, was executed by firing squad on Friday. It was the first such execution in the US since 2010, and the fourth since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Sigmon selected [...]US conducts first firing squad execution in 15 years

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