Editor's note: Brad Keith Sigmon was executed Friday by firing squad. Follow along here. A South Carolina man who beat his ex-girlfriend's parents to death in a fit of rage is set to become the ...

A firing squad in South Carolina executed Brad Keith Sigmon on Friday for the beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, marking the first firing squad execution in the state in modern history ...

Brad Sigmon, 67, was executed at 6:05 p.m. Friday, and pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m., according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. He had been strapped into a chair with a target ...