one South Carolina The death row prisoner chose to be executed by a shooting squad, which would make him the fourth inmate of the United States dead in this way of execution.
Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to be killed on March 7, informing state officials on Friday that he hopes to die by firing a shot instead of a fatal injection or electric chair when they are lethal. When killed, executed in the state.
Sigmon was the first South Carolina prisoner to choose a shooting team. Since 1976, only three prisoners in the United States have been performed by this method, all in Utah, and the last inmate was conducted 15 years ago.
In the death chamber, Sigmon will be tied to a chair and put a cover on his head and a target in his heart. Three shooters will shoot him through a small opening about 15 feet away.
Brad Sigmon was beaten to death in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Department of Corrections through AP)
Sigmon’s lawyers requested delays in executions earlier this month as they sought sedative pentagons about whether Marion Bowman, the state’s last inmate, was executed on January 31 bone. Attorneys have received an autopsy report from Bowman, who requested the report and other information about the lethal injection of the drug.
The judge rejected the request to postpone the execution.
Sigmon killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001 at his home in Greenville County. Investigators said both rooms were in separate rooms, with Sigmun walking back and forth between the rooms as they defeated the two of them to death.
back Kill a coupleSigmon kidnapped his ex-girlfriend with a gun, but she managed to escape from his car. He shot her when she ran away, but missed it.
He said: “I can’t have her, I won’t let anyone else have her.”
Sigmon’s attorney now has the last appeal to demand that the state Supreme Court stop execution of the execution to allow a hearing meeting, claiming that his trial attorney is inexperienced and has not stopped jury statements or brought him entirely to his mental illness. Or difficult family life. Jury as a kid.
Sigmon’s last chance to save lives after the final appeal could require Republican Gov. Henry McMaster to cut his sentence to life without parole, but 49 years since the death penalty resumed Central, South Carolina governor did not grant leniency.
South Carolina has been executed for the third state execution since September
This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death room in Columbia, South Carolina, including a right chair and a shooting squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections through AP)
this State Legislature The shooting squad was approved after prison officials struggled to get fatal injections because of concerns that they would have to reveal that they had sold the drugs to state officials. The state legislature then passed the Shield Act, allowing officials to keep the privacy of deadly injected drug suppliers, but firing squads remained an option.
Sigmon’s lawyer said he chose the lethal injection because of concerns about the previous three executions, as the state resumed its September death penalty after an involuntary pause of 13 years and moved to a large number of five Pentagon of the shaped edge. Witnesses to the top three executions said that although the men appeared to stop breathing and move within minutes, they were pronounced dead in at least 20 minutes.
Sigmon did not choose the electric chair because it would “burn and cook him alive,” his attorney Gerald “Bo” King said in a statement.
“The choice Brad faces today is impossible,” King wrote. “Unless he chooses a deadly injection or shooting squad, he will die in an ancient electric chair in South Carolina, which will burn and cook him,” he wrote. . But another option is also terrible.”
“If he chose a fatal injection, he risked the long-term deaths of all three South Carolina men since their execution in September, and three men, Brad, met and cared for – they were still alive, tied to Gurney , tied to more than fifty minutes. Before his heart stopped, it took at least a second of a large pentagon, and then he died from swelling in his lungs. ” he continued.
His attorney said South Carolina’s information on its deadly injections kept secret, leading him to decide to fire the squad, which he admitted would be a violent death.
“The only option left is the shooting squad. Brad has no fantasies about his body,” King said. “He doesn’t want to put pain on his family, witnesses or execution teams. But given the unnecessary disagreement in South Carolina,” he said. It is reasonable to keep it confidential, Brad is doing his best.”
The room where prisoners were executed in Columbus, South Carolina. (South Carolina Department of Corrections through AP)
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The autopsy report is only used for one of the executions. Prison officials say Richard Moore gave two large doses of pentagons 11 minutes apart on Nov. 1, Sigmon’s lawyer said Moore’s autopsy showed fluid in the lungs Unusually, experts suggest that he might feel like he was consciously drowning and suffocating in his lungs. It took him 23 minutes to be pronounced dead.
Attorneys in the state said a large number of five-brain cores and cited witnesses, who said so far, inmates executed in the state have not breathed about a minute after the process began.
Freddie Owens did not perform an autopsy after he performed Freddie Owens at his request on September 20 because his Muslim belief is religious.
South Carolina has executed 46 prisoners since the death penalty was restored in the United States in 1976. In the early 2000s, the state performed an average of three executions per year. Only nine states killed more prisoners.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
