South Carolina man chooses execution by firing squad despite concerns over last death by bullets [More]
Why? Are they going to burn his eyes with cigarettes first, like he did to his victim? And did he hit the heart dead center on him and on the other two he shot to death?
[Via bondmen]
“They released photos from the autopsy and questioned why there only appeared to be two bullet entrance wounds when three people fired.”
It is an old tradition for firing squads to equip one of the guns with a blank (a “conscience round”) so that any executioner with regrets can console himself that he may have been the shooter of the blank. Perhaps South Carolina follows it.
Good of you to remind us of conscience rounds. However, this story on SC’s execution of Brad Sigmon said:
“Fifteen feet (4.6 meters) away will be three state Corrections Department volunteers with rifles. All three will have live ammunition.”
Now, I realize that we’re not the marksmen that our ancestors were. But a clean miss at 15 feet?
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