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Comment on South Carolina conducts first US firing squad execution in 15 years: ‘Barbaric’

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨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.

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AZERTY@feddit.nl ⁨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.

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