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A Death Row Inmate Choose A Torturous Form Of Execution That Has Not Been Used For Fifteen Years
The first prisoner to be executed by this manner since 2010 will be a man who has been given a death sentence.
After being found guilty of the double murder of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca Barbre’s parents in South Carolina, Brad Sigmon was sent on death row in 2001.
While at her parents’ house in Greenville County, Sigmon, 67, allegedly used a baseball bat to beat them to death, according to CBS. Prosecutors claim that he then abducted Rebecca at gunpoint, but she managed to flee his vehicle as he tried to shoot her but failed.
Sigmon was handed two death sentences and has been on execution row ever since. He was also sentenced to 30 years in prison for first-degree burglary.
Following the denial of multiple appeals, Sigmon is set to be put to death on March 7, 2025.
According to The Guardian, South Carolina now gives death row convicts the option of being executed by firing squad, lethal injection, or electric chair. The electric chair is the default option if they are unable to make a decision.
Sigmon, however, has chosen to be executed by firing squad next month, becoming the first American prisoner to do so in fifteen years.
Additionally, he will be the fourth prisoner to be killed by firing squad since 1976; Ronnie Lee Gardner was the last to be executed in Utah in 2010.
Sigmon will be strapped to a chair and have a hood over his head during the execution, according to the New York Post.
In the death chamber, a target will be positioned over his heart, and three volunteers will shoot at him from a tiny aperture about 15 feet away.
Gerald ‘Bo’ King, Signmon’s lawyer, claims that he ultimately decided against using the electric chair because it would ‘burn and cook him alive’.
He said (via NBC News): “But the alternative is just as monstrous. If he chose lethal injection, he risked the prolonged death suffered by all three of the men South Carolina has executed since September — three men Brad knew and cared for — who remained alive, strapped to a gurney, for more than twenty minutes.”
King said the only remaining option was a firing squad, adding: “Brad has no illusions about what being shot will do to his body.”
“He does not wish to inflict that pain on his family, the witnesses, or the execution team. But, given South Carolina’s unnecessary and unconscionable secrecy, Brad is choosing as best he can.”
Courtney Farrell, another of Sigmon’s representatives, added that he will be put to death at Columbia’s Broad River Correctional Institution, where he is presently being detained.
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