A man from the American state of South Carolina convicted for the murder of his former girlfriend’s parents on Friday was executed by shooting. This was the first execution of a shot in the United States in the last 15 years. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
67-year-old Brad Sigmon, who confessed to the murder of David and Gladys Larko in 2001 with a baseball bat, He was executed by a three -member scrap in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. At the last minute, Sigmon asked the Supreme Court to postpone the execution, but he rejected it. Governor of South Carolina Henry McMaster also He dismissed his request for mercy.
Sigmon could choose between a deadly injection, a wrap or an electric chair. Gerald “Bo” King, one of his lawyers, said Sigmon decided to shoot after he got into a “impossible” situation and was forced to make a “disgusting cruel” decision on the way of his death.
“If he did not choose a deadly injection or a bombing platoon, he would have died on the ancient electric chair of South Carolina, which would burn it and cook it alive,” King said that if he decided for a deadly injection, he would risk long dying, as all three men whose South Carolina executed since September.
The last execution of the baking platoon took place in the United States in 2010 in Utah. In this American state, two other executions were performed by shooting – in 1996 and in 1977. Sigmon is thus the fourth convict, who was executed in the US by shooting from the re -introduction of the death penalty in 1976. The vast majority of executions in the US are performed by a deadly injection.
