What is it like to witness an execution by firing squad? @AssociatedPress reporter Jeffrey Collins describes South Carolina's capital punishment of Brad Sigmon.
"I might now be unique among U.S. reporters: I’ve witnessed three different methods — nine lethal injections and an electric chair execution," he writes.
Brad Sigmon, 67, was put to death by firing squad at 6.05pm this evening at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
In 2001, he brutally murdered his ex girlfriend’s parents and kidnapped her, although she was fortunately able to escape. He immediately admitted to police that he had snapped and didn’t know why he did it, but he did it. He was never evaluated for mental healthiness.
In the years he’s been in prison, he was a model prisoner, with no infractions. He expressed deep remorse for his crime.
None the less, McMasters, the governor of South Carolina, who couldn’t even be bothered to be there to see his execution orders performed, did not stay the execution, and at 6:03pm, three high caliber shots were fired into Brad Sigmon’s chest.
Because somehow the state committing murder is acceptable. It’s the 21st damn century, I think it’s time to move past the death penalty now.
Whatever the crime, this is absolutely barbaric.
We need to stop looking at the US as leaders in democracy because this is not the act of a modern society.
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