Brad Sigmon, 67, was shot dead by prison staff despite outcry over ‘cruel’ method and calls for clemency
  • @Chivera
    21•2 days ago

    I thought firing squad was more humane than electric chair or lethal injection.

    • @saltesc
      26•2 days ago

      In the article, he chose it for fear of issues occuring with the other two.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 day ago

        Iirc the only reason we went with lethal injection was because politicians couldn’t stomach the gore of a firing squad. And the PTSD of this firing the guns.

        • AZERTYEnglish
          4•1 day ago

          Sigmon chose to be shot dead out of fear that lethal injection would result in a “prolonged death” following reports that the last three South Carolina men executed by pentobarbital, a sedative, took more than 20 minutes to die and one appeared to suffer a condition akin to drowning and suffocation. They were “three men Brad knew and cared for”, his lawyers said, and he feared a slow injection process or being “burned and cooked alive” by electrocution.