Brad Keith Sigmon chose this execution method instead of fatal injection or the electric chair after he was convicted by the murder of their ex -friend.
A prisoner from South Carolina convicted of double murder of the parents of his ex -friend was executed this Friday by a shooting team, which is the first American convicted person who was dead by this method in 15 years, according to the authorities of the aforementioned state.
“The Capital Penalty judgment of Brad Keith Sigmon was held tonight, in accordance with the command of the Supreme Court of South Carolina and in accordance with the Studies Act. The execution was performed by a shooting of three people,” said the South Carolina Corrections department.
The performance of Sigmon, 67, is only the fourth performance in the United States by a squirrel for the restoration of the death penalty in 1976, according to the Death Penalty tion Center, quoted by the American CNN chain. The latter happened in 2010.
The procedure exists that the firing squad, three people from the correction department, are placed 4.5 meters away and bullets were shot in the heart of the prisoner. Among the witnesses who have been witnesses, his family members of the victims, the lawyer of the convicted person or three members of the media.
Sigmon opted for this implementation method instead of deadly injection or electric chair.
He was convicted in 2001 for the murder of his ex -girlfriend with a baseball bat. The man then admitted that he was also planning to attack his ex -friend, but she managed to escape.
Source: EITB
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