By james art 
The prisoner from the death of South Carolina has chosen to die by dismissing a squad, a controversial and rarely used method of execution, which is legal but is regarded as an inhuman form of justice by many Americans. 67-year-old Brad Sigmon was executed on March 7th. He was sentenced in 2001 for killing his ex -girlfriend’s parents in their home. Prosecutors said Sigmon also kept her ex -girlfriend under shooting and tried to kidnap her, but she escaped. He fired at her as she was running, but missed.
Sigmon’s execution next month will be the first death of South Carolina by dismissing a squad that was legalized in the state in 2021.
Sigmon has not chosen electricity because it will “burn and cook it alive,” says in a statement by the Associated Press.
King says Sigmon admits that the execution of a squad will be a violent death. “If he chose a deadly injection,” said King, “the risk of prolonged death, suffered by all three of the men South Carolina had executed in September – three men who knew and cared for – who remained alive, attached to Gurney, for More than 20 minutes. ”
Since 1976, only three executions have appeared in Utah and all have happened in Utah. If done, Sigmon’s execution will be the first time in over 15 years that the US prisoner will be shot to death as a method of implementation.
His life can be spared if South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has reduced his sentence to life without conditional release. In 49 years, since the state reimbursed the death penalty, no governor has provided pardon.
How death by dismissing a squad usually works
Performance by dismissing a squad, according to the death penal information center, usually includes a prisoner bound in a chair in front of a wall.
The prisoner can speak any last and last words before standing a squad of about 20 feet from the prisoner. The sand bags are placed near the chair to protect the bullets from ricocating around the room.
In accordance with the rules of South Carolina, three volunteer employees of the Ministry of Correction are armed with weapons loaded with live ammunition.
The prisoner usually dies as a result of blood loss caused by a rupture of the heart or a large blood vessel, the DPIC website said.
How many executions of units did they have?
In the US, 34 people were executed by a detachment, according to DPIC data. This is the only method of performance that has 0% boots. Relatively, death through a deadly injection has the most boting degree of implementation at 7.12%.
The latest death by dismissal was in 2010, when 49-year-old Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed in Salt Lake County, Utah. He was declared dead two minutes after being shot.
What countries are they currently using the method?
The following five countries have authorized the execution by dismissing a squad in certain cases:
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Idaho: Deadly injection is the main method of implementation under state legislation, but if the director of the Department of Adjustment Department in Idaho determines that it is inaccessible, then a fired squad will be used.
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Mississippi: The 2022 State Law allows correction staff to choose their preferred method of implementation – or a deadly injection, electrquotion, launching a squad or nitrogen hypoxia.
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Oklahoma: If other methods such as a deadly injection, nitrogen hypoxia or electrocation are defined as unconstitutional or otherwise available, then death by dismissing a squad is permitted a method of implementation under state legislation.
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South Carolina: State legislation says the prisoner can choose his performance method: electricity, launching a squad or a deadly injection.
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Utah: If lethal injection medicines are not available or if the court finds that use is unconstitutional, then death by dismissing a squad will be the method of execution, according to State Law.