A first in 15 years, US executes Brad Sigmon by firing squad for 2002 double murder

Sigmon's lawyers said he chose the firing squad because the electric chair would 'cook him alive,' and he feared that a lethal injection of pentobarbital into his veins would send a rush of fluid and blood into his lungs and drown him

A first in 15 years, US executes Brad Sigmon by firing squad for 2002 double murder
Sigmon's lawyers said he chose the firing squad because the electric chair would 'cook him alive,' and he feared that a lethal injection of pentobarbital into his veins would send a rush of fluid and blood into his lungs and drown him