A convicted murderer in South Carolina has chosen to become the first American prisoner in 15 years that will be executed by Squad next month.
Brad Sigmon, 67, is planned to die on March 7 for the brutal baseball bat that beat the death of the parents of his ex-girlfriend in 2001 and on Friday he chose the method of the shooting team instead of being confronted with deadly injection Or the electric chair.
Since 1976, only three prisoners have been performed by Squad in the US in the US, all of whom were in Utah, with the most recent place in 2010.
When he is executed, Sigmon is tied in a chair in the death room of the Broad River Prison, placed a hood over his head and placed a target over his heart before three volunteers shoot at him from about 15 feet distance.
The lawyer of the murderer Gerald 'Bo' King said that Sigmon wanted to avoid the electric chair because he would 'burn and cook alive', but mentioned the widespread problems with the deadly injection systems of America as 'just as monstrous'.
“If he opted for fatal injection, he risked the long -term death of all three men who has exhausted South Carolina since September – three men who knew Brad and provided – who stayed alive, tied to a break, more than twenty minutes,” ” King wrote in a statement.
The uncertainty about fatal injections – which are plagued for years due to problems in the midst of a shortage of the medicines used – led Sigmon to choose a method that he knows will be a violent death, King said.
“He does not want to inflict that pain to his family, the witnesses or the execution team. But given the unnecessary and uninhabitable confidentiality of South Carolina, Brad chooses as well as possible, “he said.
Brad Sigmon, 67, is planned to die on March 7 for the brutal baseball bat that beat the death of his ex-girlfriend's parents in 2001, and on Friday he chose the Firing Squad method instead of being confronted with deadly injection or the electric chair
If his execution continues next month, Sigmon will be the first American prisoner to die in 15 years, and only the fourth since 1976
Sigmon was sentenced in 2001 to two death sentences for the murders on the baseball bat of David and Gladys Larke, 62 and 59 respectively, the parents of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca barbare.
A week after Barbaric had ended their relationship, Sigmon demolished her parents' house in Greenville, South Carolina and Bludgeon both of them killed with the baseball bat.
He then waited in the house until barbare returned, at what point he kidnapped her at shot and forced her into his car.
Barbally escaped from the car at some point during their journey, and although Sigmon on her lap, he missed and fled the stage when she escaped.
The police launched an urgent manhunt for Sigmon, and after 11 days on the run he was imprisoned in Gatlinburg, Tennessee and was extradited to South Carolina.
In a confession after his arrest, Sigmon told the researchers that he had focused his ex and her family, because if I couldn't have her, I would not let anyone else. '
Sigmon is depicted in 1990, 11 years before he was sentenced to two death sentences in 2001 for the murders on the baseball bat of David and Gladys Larke, the parents of his ex-girlfriend Rebecca barbare
Sigmon, seen in a mugshot from behind bars, opted for a deadly injection because of the fear of a lack of suitable medicines, and feared that the electric chair would “burn and cook it alive”
South Carolina spent $ 54,000 in 2022 to build his shooting team device, including installing bulletproof glass in the witness boat (photo)
The lawyers of Sigmon have one last chance of an appeal at the Supreme Court of the State, where they will argue for a hearing on claims that the trial lawyers of Sigmon were inexperienced and his rough youth or psychological disorder on the jury did not explain associated Press .
If the Supreme Court of the State does not grant the hearing, Sigmon will have to hope that the Republican governor Henry McMaster will stand up at the last minute to stay his execution.
McMaster would be the first Governor of South Carolina in 49 years to grant clementia since the State started the death penalty again.
In the midst of issues with obtaining fatal injection drugs, shooting squadrons are re-created as an execution method, in which alleged four-fold murderer Bryan Kherberger is said to be confronted with the same fate if he is convicted during the trial.
It is said that South Carolina spent $ 54,000 in 2022 to build its shooting team, which will be in the same room as the electric chair and deadly injection Gurney.
This included installing bulletproof glass in the witness cabin, placing a basin under the chair to catch blood, and a wall was built for the shooters to stand behind.
Witnesses would be able to see that the prisoner is being shot dead, but have no prospect of the volunteer shooters.
