Washington, March 6, 2025 (AFP) - US to carry out first firing squad execution since 2010

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A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents is to be put to death by firing squad on Friday in the first such execution in the United States in 15 years. Brad Sigmon, 67, is to be executed at a prison in Columbia, the South Carolina capital, for the 2001 murders of David and Gladys Larke, who were beaten to death with a baseball bat. Sigmon, who confessed to the murders and admitted his guilt at trial, had a choice bet......

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