One month before Mahdi was shot, on March 7, another South Carolina death row prisoner, Brad Sigmon, became the first person to die by the state's firing squad. His lawyer said Sigmon believed the ...

Brad Sigmon, the first inmate executed by firing squad in the modern history of South Carolina, used his final statement to ...

Three volunteer prison employees using rifles fatally shot Brad Sigmon – convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat in 2001 – from behind a barrier with openings ...

One month before Mahdi was shot, on March 7, another South Carolina death row prisoner, Brad Sigmon, became the first person to die by the state's firing squad. His lawyer said Sigmon believed the ...