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Brad SigmonThe first prisoner to be executed in a nation fire squad He died in 15 years.
The death prisoner was accompanied in a wide crust for the tracking of the South Caroline River in Colombia in the landscape 6 hours ago, time of his scheduled execution.
The three State Ministry of Corrections of employees, who voluntarily dealt to carry out, stood behind the wall with a rectangular opening of 15 meters. Once Sigmon is attached to a chair, the executors put a hood over his head and a target on his heart.
The warden read the order for execution and release of shooting. Moments later, the doctor confirmed his death. The staff then lowered the curtains.
Ronnie Gardner was the last person who would put in the US in death by shooting squads in June 2012. in Utah.
Sigmon chose to die by shooting the detachment in February, weeks after the correction department received his execution order. Previously caused officials in court due to publicly available information on the deadly injection execution.
After these efforts failed, he was forced to choose from three methods of state: a deadly injection, electricity and squad.
2021. year, the state brought a law that enabled the shooting of the squad and spent about 53,600 dollars in stock and materials in order to renew in its POV. The work of construction and design was performed in the house, officials in the news release were said.
The firearms team was formed from the creation of the law and its members is practiced once a month.
Sigmon finished on the death line in 2002. years for the murder of his former girl, Gladys and David Larke in the district Greenville. He admitted to the murder and told the authorities to hit them in the head of the baseball bat nine times.
Sigmon dated Rebecca Barbara for about three years when their relationship ended in 2001. years. She smoked for a friend to smoke and drank that she wants to revenge a woman for, “she is on her way.
As the woman took her children to school, he entered the home of his parents and beat them to death. Barbare’s point is the skull “is basically almost broken in two”, according to court transcripts.
Sigmon was waiting for Barbara to return home. When she did, he used his father to push her into his car in the point.
The woman ran out of the vehicle later, making up the shots fired in her direction. Sigma escaped from the state and was arrested in the camp in Gatlinburg, Tennessee after the 11-day mancal. The police extradited him to South Carolina. The great jury accused him at two murder points and the charges of the first-degree injury.
He told the officers that he planned to kill and barbarians and himself.
In July, the State Supreme Court issued a verdict by allowing the execution to continue after the 13-year moratorium. In addition, the Court considered the execution of the execution of the legal form of punishment, despite criticisms, it is a inhuman form of justice.
Authorities have since made three deadly injection executions.
Neither American Supreme Court nor Governor Henry McMaster approved Sigmon Repriga in front of the execution. His lawyers filed a writer centors, but the hours were rejected before he was set to death. The court did not issue a statement on the issue.