For the first time in 15 years: Südkaroliner votes shooting command!

For the first time in 15 years: Südkaroliner votes shooting command!

In an unprecedented case, Brad Sigmon, a convicted murderer from South Carolina, is executed with a shooting squad on Friday evening. This is the first such execution in the United States for 15 years, since the prisoner neither wanted to accept the poison injection nor the electric chair, for fear of the potential agony of fatal injection. Sigmon stated that he lacked confidence in the medication used, which made him choose the shot command for the execution. As the Krone , he has the decision to place the target above his heart and have a hood over pulled.

The 41-year-old was convicted in 2001 because he had brutally murdered the parents of his ex-girlfriend with a baseball bat. He also planned to kill his ex-girlfriend, who was luckily escaping. Sigmon, whose lawyers are trying to stop the execution, described himself as an "exemplary prisoner" and hopes that the governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, could save his life by converting his death sentence into lifelong imprisonment. However, these efforts have so far been ignored, especially after the Supreme Court of the state rejected an application for suspension of the execution, so n-tv .

suggestion methods in South Carolina

South Carolina again introduced the possibility of execution by shooting commands in 2021, since the procurement of medication for the fatal injections was problematic. In addition to suspected slow killing methods of the injections, the electric chair are also available in this state. According to the non -profit organization Death Penalty Information Center, only five states of the United States allowed the execution commands, including Idaho, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Utah. The last of this kind took place in Utah in 2010 and marks a decline in the application of such methods, while Brad Sigmon's upcoming execution raises questions about ethics and humanity.