Columbia, South Carolina – Brad Sigmon, a prisoner inmate who condemned South Carolina, chose to be killed by a shooting squad next month. He will be the first American prisoners to be shot in 15 years.
Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7. On Friday, he became the first prisoner to choose the state’s new shooting squad instead of a deadly injection or electric chair.
Since 1976, only three prisoners in the United States have been fired. All prisoners were in Utah, with the last one being held in 2010.
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Sigmon, 67, will be tied to a chair and put a hood on his head and a target on the heart of the death chamber. Three volunteers will fire at him through a small opening about 15 feet (4.6 meters).
Sigmon’s attorneys demanded a delay in execution earlier this month because they wanted to find out if Marion Bowman, a previously executed prisoner in South Carolina, was given in the execution of his autopsy report on Jan. 31 The criminal who had two doses of pentagonal bone.
The justice rejected his delay, and Friday’s court records have not yet indicated whether Sigmun’s attorney had received Bowman’s autopsy report.
Sigmon did not choose the electric chair because it would “burn and cook him alive,” his attorney Gerald “Bo” King wrote in a statement.
“But the alternative is equally terrible,” King said. “If he chooses a fatal injection, he risked the long-term deaths of all three South Carolina men since their execution in September – the three men knew and looked after – they also Alive, tied to Gurney, tied to more than fifty minutes.”
His lawyer said Sigmun knew it would be a violent death.
“He doesn’t want to put pain on his family, witnesses or execution teams. But, given the unnecessary and unreasonable confidentiality in South Carolina, Brad is doing his best,” King said.
Sigmon killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001 at his home in Greenville County. Investigators said they were in a separate room and they walked back and forth when Sigmun beat them to death. He then kidnapped his ex-girlfriend with a gun, but she escaped from the car. Prosecutors said he shot her when he ran away, but missed it.
Sigmon confessed: “I can’t have her, I won’t let anyone else have her.”
Sigmon will be the oldest of 46 South Carolina prisoners since the re-sentence of the death penalty in the United States in 1976.
Sigmon’s lawyers finally appealed, demanding that the state Supreme Court stop executing the executions when they demanded mercy, life as a child.
Sigmon’s last chance to save his life may be asking Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence without parole.
His lawyer said he was a model prisoner trusted by the guards, who murdered the killings he committed after succumbing to a serious mental illness. They said he would only convey the message that South Carolina refused to admit redemption.
The governor of South Carolina has not granted leniency in the 49 years since the re-sentence of the death penalty.
South Carolina spent about $54,000 in 2022 to build an area of shooting squads inside its death chamber. It’s not far from the electric chair.
The witness window was installed with bulletproof glass, and there was a basin chair underneath that had blood installed, and walls were built for the shooter to stand behind. Witnesses will see the prisoner’s profile but will not see the shooting squad.
After prison officials were unable to obtain the drugs needed for deadly injections, the state legislature approved the shooting squad because the supplier refused to sell them if they were publicly known. Later the shield law was passed, but the shooting squad was still on the books.
Sigmon did not choose a fatal injection, as witnesses to the top three executions since the state moved to a large number of pentagonal bones said that even though the condemned prisoners seemed to stop breathing and moving within minutes, they were not taken. Declared as death. At least 20 minutes.
The autopsy report was used only for one of the executions: Richard Moore, who gave prison officials 11 minutes apart on November 1 that he was awarded two high-dose pentagons.
Freddie Owens, the first prisoner to be killed by the new agreement, refused an autopsy for religious reasons.
Sigmon’s lawyer says Moore’s autopsy showed unusual fluid in his lungs, and experts suggest he might feel like he was drowning
The state’s lawyers said large quantities of liquid from the Five-Duclear V are not uncommon for executions, noting that witnesses said so far, inmates killed in South Carolina so far only have they had the following executions Consciousness and breathing for about a minute.
