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The method is a vivid reminder of the brutality of state killing. That undermines the pro-capital-punishment narrative
On 11 April, South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi by firing squad. Mahdi had been …
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Jeffrey Collins of the Associated Press recalls experience of watching Brad Sigmon die for 2001 murders
A reporter for the Associated Press who watched as South Carolina executed a convicted murderer …
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Brad Sigmon, 67, will be first executed by gunfire in US in 15 years as supporters call for clemency
The US will conduct its first execution by firing squad in 15 years on Friday in South Carolina, de…
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Lawyers for Brad Sigmon said he chose a death by firing squad because he thought lethal injection would be tortuous
South Carolina’s supreme court has rejected what is likely the final appeal of convi…
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Brad Sigmon, 67, chooses to be shot dead amid concerns that lethal injections have caused ‘excruciating’ pain
A South Carolina man on death row has chosen to be killed by firing squad, and if his exec…
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