A South Carolina Death Ro prisoner has chosen to execute by a firing squad, which would make him only the fourth prisoner in the US to die by this execution method.
67 -year -old Brad Sigmon, who was killed on 7 March, informed the state officials on Friday that he wanted to die by firing the squad instead of a deadly injection or electric chair, saying that three prisoners were suffering for a long time. When they were killed by deadly injections, they were executed in the state.
Sigmon was the first South Carolina prisoner to select a firing team. Since 1976, only three prisoners have been executed in the US by this method and all were in Utah, with the previous one 15 years ago.
In the Death Chamber, Sigmon will be taken on a chair and a hood on his head and a goal on his heart. Three shooters will set fire to him through a small opening of about 15 feet away.
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Brad Sigmon was convicted in 2001 for killing his girlfriend’s parents in Greenville County. (South Carolina Reforms Department through AP)
Sigmon lawyers asked to delay their execution date earlier this month as they sought information about whether the final prisoner executed by the state, Marian Boman, was given two doses of Shamak Pentobital in his execution on 31 January. Was. The lawyers have received Boman’s Autopsy report, which they requested with additional information about the deadly injection drug.
Justice rejected the request for a postponed execution.
Sigmon was convicted at his home in the greenville county of his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001 baseball bat murders. Both were in separate rooms, the investigators said, and the Sigmon went back and forth between the rooms because he defeated both of them.
after DarlingSiran kidnapped her ex -girlfriend at gunpoint, but managed to escape from her car. He shot him as soon as he ran but missed.
He said, “I couldn’t do it, I was not going to go to anyone else.”
Sigmon lawyers now have one last appeal, the Supreme Court of the state asked to stop its execution to allow hearing on its claims that their test lawyers lacking experience and by stopping their statement to the jury or Failed not to bring their mental illness or rough family life completely. As a child before the jury.
Following that final appeal, Sigmon’s last chance to save his life may ask the Republican village Henry McMaster to reduce his sentence for life without parole, but no South Carolina governor gave up for 49 years. Is because the death penalty started again.
South Carolina executed a person convicted of murder in the third execution of the state from September
The picture provided by the South Carolina Department of Karekshas shows the state’s Death Chamber in Colombia, South Carolina, including electric chair, right and firing squad chair, on the left. (South Carolina Reforms Department through AP)
The state Legislature approved the firing squad after the prison authorities had difficulty getting fatal injection drugs due to concerns from pharmaceutical companies that they would have to reveal that they had sold drugs to state officials. The State Legislature then passed the Shield Act, allowing the authorities to keep the deadly injection drug suppliers private, but the firing team remained an option.
Sigmon lawyers said that they chose against deadly injections due to concerns over three previous execution as the state resumed the death sentence in September after an involuntary stagnation and to use a large dose of Pentobital in September Go away. Witnesses of three pre -execution witnesses said that despite men to breathe and move forward in just a few minutes, they were not declared dead for at least 20 minutes.
Sigmon did not choose the electric chair as it would “burn it and make it alive,” his lawyer, Graild “Bo” King said in a statement.
“Election Brad faced today,” the king wrote. “He will die in the ancient electric chair of South Carolina until he chose a deadly injection or firing squad, which will burn him and make him alive. But the option is just demonic.”
“If he chose fatal injections, he risk death by all three people from South Carolina since September – three people knew and took care of him – who survived, who survived, from twenty minutes from twenty minutes For a long time, for a garnish. At least one needed a second, mass dose of pentobital before stopping its heart, and with swelling with fluid with its lungs Died, “he continued.
His lawyer said that South Carolina kept secret about the information about the operation of deadly injections, making him a decision on the firing squad, which he admitted that a violent death would take place, his lawyer said.
“The only option that remained the firing squad. Brad has no illusion about what his body will be shot,” the king said. “He does not wish to provoke that pain on his family, witnesses, or execution team. But, Given the unnecessary and unconscious privacy of South Carolina, Brad is choosing the best.”
The room where prisoners are executed in Columbus, South Carolina. (South Carolina Reforms Department through AP)
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The Autopsy Report has been released for only one execution. Jail officials said that Richard Moore was given two major doses of Pentobalbital on November 1 as well as 11 minutes. Sigmon’s lawyers stated that Moore’s body examination showed abnormal amounts of fluid in its lungs, and a specialist suggested that he was feeling that he was a conscious sinking and suffocating during that. He was declared dead for 23 minutes.
State lawyers said that the liquids are not uncommon to execute a large dose of Pentobbital and a quoted witnesses, who said that the prisoners executed in the state so far have to be conscious and breathe for about a minute after the process starts. .
Citing religious reasons due to his Muslim belief, there was no body examination after the execution of Freddy Owens on 20 September at his request.
South Carolina has carried out 46 prisoners since he started the death sentence in the US in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state was performing an average of three per year. Only nine states have killed more prisoners.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
