The Supreme Court docket on Friday denied a South Carolina assassin’s request to not be executed, about two hours earlier than he’s set to die by a firing squad.
Will probably be the primary time South Carolina executes somebody by this methodology. The execution is scheduled for six p.m.
Brad Keith Sigmon, 67, kidnapped ex-girlfriend Rebecca Armstrong and beat her dad and mom to loss of life.
He instructed police he deliberate on tying up Ms. Armstrong’s dad and mom so he might kidnap her, spend a romantic weekend collectively and kill her afterward. However he wound up beating her dad and mom to loss of life with a baseball bat at their residence on April 27, 2001.
He managed to kidnap Ms. Armstrong as properly, court docket information confirmed, however she escaped from her ex-lover by leaping out of his transferring automobile. Sigmon shot her within the foot whereas she ran away.
Sigmon selected to be killed by the group of armed jail workers in Columbia’s Broad River Correctional Institute after his lawyer mentioned he didn’t need to be executed in an electrical chair or take care of unreliable deadly injections.
Sigmon’s legal professionals had sought to pause the execution, saying the state didn’t give sufficient details about its provide of deadly injection medication, which created a due course of violation. However the state’s legal professional normal requested the excessive court docket to reject that argument, noting that Sigmon has repeatedly admitted guilt to “the bludgeoning murders of his former girlfriend’s dad and mom.”
The justices rejected the request roughly two hours earlier than the firing squad was set to execute him.
Sigmon shall be strapped to a chair — the identical one used for electrocutions — with a hood over his head and a goal over his coronary heart, the state’s Division of Corrections mentioned.
The warden will then learn the execution order, and the firing squad will open fireplace on the prisoner. A physician shall be despatched in to look at the inmate afterward.
Sigmon would be the first particular person executed by firing squad within the U.S. since 2010, which was carried out in Utah towards convicted killer Ronnie Lee Gardner. Utah has been the one state to carry out this type of execution and has killed prisoners in 1977 and 1996 by firing squad.
