South Carolina inmate executed by firing squad for first time in US since 2010

[Polybius]

Source: CNN

Columbia, South Carolina
CNN
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A convicted double murderer has been executed by firing squad – the first such execution in the United States since 2010, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections.

The execution of Brad Sigmon, 67, by the South Carolina Department of Corrections on Friday is only the fourth firing squad execution in the US since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

Sigmon chose firing squad over the two other state-approved methods of execution, lethal injection or the electric chair. He was pronounced dead by a physician at 6:08 p.m. ET, officials said at a news conference Friday.

Sigmon was convicted of the 2001 bludgeoning deaths of his ex-girlfriend’s parents. After their murders, Sigmon kidnapped his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint, but she managed to escape.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/07/us/brad-sigmon-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution/index.html

[slightlv]

1. Just when I think we've hit bottom in civility,

we bring back the barbarism of the firing squad. What an appropriate symbol of the times. (SMDH)

[Jose Garcia]

3. The convicted murderer actually chose that as the method of his execution

[slightlv]

5. Yes, i know that... and i was going to

Add that in my reply. To me, it makes no difference. They've made the lethal injection so uncertain that they force people to decide how you're going to kill them. And I know the problems with lethal injection began by those supplying the drugs refusing to do so as a religious or moral code against murder. That still doesn't mean we go back to using barbaric methods.

In general I'm against the death penalty. I do make exception for crimes so heinous and the criminal so far beyond reform that to do less would sacrifice our safety. To do otherwise is to make the system punishment and revenge based, where it was suppose to be punishment and reform oriented.

[Paladin]

8. Other state execution methods are more barbaric, in my opinion.

Lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, and (God knows) hanging are more problematic and more subject to error and miscalculation than the effect of multiple high-powered rifle bullets from a firing squad.

[Smackdown2019]

4. Sorry, but murders deserve such punishment

Though, many convicted murders sit on death roll have been found innocent due to botch or injustice means that put them into the spot, but there are those who acknowledged their guilt and deserve the same outcome they are put them on death roll. In this case, he guilty.

Cases of questionable convictions, those should be life in my opinion.

[Bengus81]

7. Yes....IF they are truly the murderer such as BTK and the Carr brothers in Wichita.

Some 340 or more "murders" on death row have been released over the years a lot of them through Project Innocence.

[Traildogbob]

2. The state is

Home to one of the top treasonist in the trump regime. May wanna have that squad “Stand back and Stand By”. High treason use to carry the penalty of Hanging. Wondering are the J6 Gallows Stored in DC? How appropriate, from their own gallows?

[mdbl]

6. What have they been using chemically?

I thought an OD of anesthetic could kill anyone.