Priyanka Tiwari
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Inmate Brad Sigmon was executed by firing squad in a South Carolina prison on Friday, marking the first time this execution method has been used in the U.S. in 15 years. Sigmon, 67, was shot three times in the chest simultaneously by two prison guards and an unsourced third person. Sigmon is the fourth person to be executed in this fashion since 1976.
Firing squad execution
Sigmon was strapped to a metal chair in the chamber of death, wearing a black jumpsuit and hood. He was restrained to a point of immobility and was positioned with his chest facing towards a target with a bullseye over where the red dot was painted. The three guards were situated 15 feet away from him.
Remarkably, a quarter of a century has passed since someone was executed in this way and now it looks like they won’t be accepted back into society.
Choice of execution method
Even more unfathomable is that such an odd choice was made over the typical electrocution or lethal injection.
According to Sigmon’s attorneys, he preferred the firing squad over the electric chair, which would ‘cook him alive’ and he was terrified that a lethal injection of pentobarbital would allow fluid and blood to rush to his lungs, drowning him.
Convicted for murder of ex-girlfriend's parents
In 2002, he was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents by bludgeoning them to death with a baseball bat.
His victims, David and Gladys Larke, were murdered in 2001 in their Greenville County residence during a kidnapping attempt gone wrong. Sigmon told authorities that he wanted to take her away for a romantic getaway, only to later end her life along with his.
His campaigners and lawyers against capital punishment, as well as his legal defenders, made several attempts, including a governor’s clemency petition and a last-chance request to a judge on Thursday for a stay of his execution.
According to Sigmon, "God does not allow man the power to murder another man,” which appeared to him quiting the Bible, “This, in my opinion, got quoted as ‘no where God in New Testament allows man to kill another man.’”
Sigmon’s legal counsel stated something very deeply two and and two out of love and his appeals to other her n-loved Christians, help us get rid of the death penalty to make this more kind of loving liberal Christ.
“An eye of an eye was given as the reasoning to the jury to attempt to pursue a capital conviction. I was extremely naive at that point. Why? Because we are no longer under the Old Testament Doctrine, but now under the New Testament.”
And his words were, “We are now living under the grace and the mercy of God.”
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