Posted on 02/23/2025 11:31:18 AM PST by dynachrome
Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad, a method of execution that has not been used in the US in 15 years.
Sigmon is scheduled to die on March 7. On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state’s new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair.
Only three inmates in the country have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All were in Utah, with the last one taking place in 2010.
Sigmon, 67, will be strapped to a chair and have a hood placed over his head and a target placed over his heart in the death chamber. Three volunteers will fire at him through a small opening about 15 feet (4.6 meters) away.
(Excerpt) Read more at local3news.com ...
In a confession, Sigmon said, “I couldn’t have her, I wasn’t going to let anybody else have her.”
He’s been wasting valuable prison space since 2001? He should have been shot years ago.
They all oughta bring subsonic 22 calibers bolt actions. Then set up a betting pool to see how many shots and how many minutes it’ll take to end this POS.
If you get a headshot, then you’re disqualified
If they need volunteers.....
Hanging them is cheaper.
They should contract it out to the North Koreans. Those anti-aircraft guns get the job done.
In North Korea they use an anti-aircraft gun. Expensive, yes, but you gotta admit it’d do the job.
Aw, man. Two minutes. I’m getting old and slow.
“If they need volunteers”
Really? Your really THAT sure you could point a weapon at a human being and pull the trigger even if it was an execution......I suspect most people that haven’t already had the 1st hand experience like LEOs or military would have second thoughts or even freeze up all together.
Even during a break in scenario, many people, when presented with that situation can’t shoot another person......I carry pretty much everywhere and I pray I’m never in that situation.....regardless of how justified I would be.....killing a person would live with you the rest of your days.
A lot of people talk big but when it really really happens it’s a whole different thing.
My thoughts exactly.
Lighten up, Francis.
YOU lighten up tough guy
Anger management :
Brad Keith Sigmon (born November 12, 1957) is an American convicted murderer who was sentenced to death for the 2001 double murder of his ex-girlfriend’s parents in South Carolina. Sigmon was convicted of battering William David and Gladys Larke, aged 62 and 59 respectively, to death with a baseball bat on April 27, 2001, merely a week after he and his ex-girlfriend broke it off, and therefore given two death sentences, in addition to a 30-year jail term for first-degree burglary (Sigmon had stolen from the Larkes on the date of the murders). Sigmon, who had since lost all his appeals against the death penalty, is currently on death row awaiting his execution at Broad River Correctional Institution, and his execution is set to be carried out by firing squad on March 7, 2025.[1]
He was 54 when he did this which I find a bit unusual.
YOU lighten up, Not tough guy.
Yeah you know I’m right
He doesn’t deserve it but make it quick, 50 BMG head shot.
There is a difference between making a sudden personal judgement to kill while out in the community and conducting a formal, state ordered execution.
Pay for view would bring big bucks for this event.
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