Five executions have been made in the US since the beginning of the year, four using fatal injectable chemicals and one with nitrogen inhalation
A man who has been convicted of the penalties in the US state Southern Carolina (southeast) preferred to be killed by an executive excerpt, something to be done in the US since 2010.
At the same time, another state of the American South, Louisiana, decided to resume executionsafter a 15 -year pause, with the method of nitrogen inhalation, which was first used by authorities in the neighboring Alabamain January 2024. This method, until then unprecedented, is considered particularly controversial and UN experts characterize it form of ‘torture’.
South Carolina authorities planned the interval between February 7 and March 7 Brad Sigon67 years old, who was sentenced to death in 2002, for beating to death with baseball bat of the parents of his former girlfriendDavid and Gladis Lark.
The laws in the state stipulate that the default method of execution is the electric chair, but give the deaths the opportunity to chooseproposing as alternatives to execution rifle or by using fatal injectable chemicals.
Three deaths executed in South Carolina since September, after a 13 -year -old pause, all chose this latest method. But Brad Sigmon, in despair, chose the executive excerpt, according to the defense.
One of the lawyers, the Gerald Kingdenounced last week the ‘Impossible choice’ between “Archaic Electric Chair of South Carolina, which burns you alive” and ‘The equally monstrous alternatives’.
This will be the fourth execution of rifle in the US for the last 65 years, he said.
The previous one, in Jute (west), was done in 2010.
There have been five executions in the US since the beginning of the year, four using fatal injectable chemicals and one with nitrogen inhalation in Alabama on February 6th.
Yet Six is ​​expected to be made only in Marchamong them that of Brad Sigon by rifle and that of Jessie Hoffman in Louisiana on March 18th with nitrogen inhalation.
The death penalty has been removed to 23 of the 50 US states. Six (Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee) apply a moratorium to its imposition, under the decisions of their rulers.
Source :Skai
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