Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot dead by prison staff despite outcry over ‘cruel’ method and calls for clemency
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250307235315/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/south-carolina-firing-squad-execution
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I thought firing squad was more humane than electric chair or lethal injection.
In the article, he chose it for fear of issues occuring with the other two.
Iirc the only reason we went with lethal injection was because politicians couldn’t stomach the gore of a firing squad. And the PTSD of this firing the guns.
Sigmon chose to be shot dead out of fear that lethal injection would result in a “prolonged death” following reports that the last three South Carolina men executed by pentobarbital, a sedative, took more than 20 minutes to die and one appeared to suffer a condition akin to drowning and suffocation. They were “three men Brad knew and cared for”, his lawyers said, and he feared a slow injection process or being “burned and cooked alive” by electrocution.
But think of the
barbariansnice people that get off on seeing other people dying.
I caught this in a news article, earlier. A whole lot of blood and violence, from beginning to end.
