NC Republicans seek to limit governor's clemency powers after death row commutation controversy
House Bill 64 would change the State Constitution to require a Governor to get approval from the General Assembly.
Backlash to clemency for 15 on NC’s death row leads to GOP call to limit governor’s power
The bill, which has nine sponsors right now, proposes amending the N.C. Constitution to require legislative approval of all clemency granted by the governor.
Salisbury Post2d
Former Connecticut governor: NC must confront racism in the death penalty
By Dannel Malloy As a former prosecutor, mayor, governor of Connecticut and a member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, I have spent much of my career in and around the ...
USA Today7d
Execution looms: Brad Sigmon is 'going to pay for what he's done,' victims' grandson says
According to court documents, Sigmon told authorities he planned to take Barbare to North Carolina ... fourth person South Carolina has executed since resuming death row executions in September ...
South Carolina man Brad Sigmon executed by firing squad, first such execution in 15 years
Brad Sigmon, who admitted to killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, said he chose to die by bullets because he considered the ...
Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes
An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South ...
South Carolina kills death-row prisoner in state's first firing squad execution
Brad Sigmon, convicted in a double murder in 2002, opted to die by a method that is rarely used. Utah carried out the last ...
WCIV Charleston on MSN3d
South Carolina execution by firing squad marks first use of method in U.S. in 15 years
The death of Brad Sigmon has left a significant mark on South Carolina, provoking intense reactions from residents and ...
Greenville man becomes first person in over a decade to be executed by firing squad
Three Department of Corrections sharpshooters fired on Sigmon, on death row for the 2001 beating deaths of David and Gladys Larke of Taylors.
South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad for first time in US since 2010
A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad, the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.