Jail officials said a person from South Carolina was convicted of killing his parents’ parents, who was killed on Friday in such an execution in the United States in 15 years.
Brad Sigmon, 67, who confessed to killing David and Gladis Larke with a baseball bat in 2001, was executed by a three-person firing squad in the Broad River Corrected Institution in the state capital Colombia, said Christian Shane.
Sigmon asked the Supreme Court to stay in the last minute of execution, but was rejected.
Henry McMaster, Governor of South Carolina, also rejected his appeal for apology.
Sigmon had an option as a method of execution between fatal injections, firing teams or electric chairs.
Garald “Bo” King, one of one of his lawyers, stated that Sigmon had chosen the firing squad after being put in “impossible” position, which he was forced to take “abusive brutally” decisions about how he would die.
“He would die in the ancient electric chair of South Carolina until he chose a deadly injection or firing squad, which will burn him and make him alive,” the king said.
“But the option is equally demonic,” he said. “If he chose fatal injections, he took the risk of prolonged death by all three people from South Carolina since September.”
The execution of the final firing squad in the United States was in 2010 in Utah. Two other people have also been performed by the firing squad in the western state – in 1996 and in 1977.
The execution of 1977 convict Gary Gilmore was the basis of the 1979 book “The Excuity Song” by Norman Meller.
Most of the American fair has been done by fatal injections since the Supreme Court restored the death sentence in 1976.
Alabama has recently done four execution using nitrogen gas, condemned by United Nations experts as cruel and inhuman. The execution is performed by pumping nitrogen gas into a facemask, causing the prisoner to suffocate.
Three other states – Idaho, Mississippi and Oklahoma – have joined South Carolina and Utah to authorize the use of firing squads.
Last year after 25, there have been six execution in the United States.
The death sentence in 23 out of 50 American states has been abolished, while three other – California, Oregon and Pennsylvania – are adjourned.
Erizona, Ohio and Tennessi had stopped execution, but recently announced a plan to resume them.
President Donald Trump is a proposer of capital punishment and called to the office to expand his first day’s use “for Vinest offenses.”
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