COLUMBIA: On Friday, South Carolina carried out the first firing squad execution in the US in fifteen years, executing a convicted murderer.
Brad Sigmon, 67, said he was afraid that the electric chair or lethal injection would result in a slower and more agonizing death, so he decided to be killed by firing squad.
The South Carolina Department of Corrections spokesperson, Chrysti Shain, stated that Sigmon was declared dead at 6:08 p.m. ET.
In 2001, Sigmon was found guilty of using a baseball bat to kill his ex-girlfriend’s parents, William and Gladys Larke, at their Taylors, Texas, home.
