Desperate final plea of ​​a prisoner sentenced to death, before being shot, shocks the US

A double convicted murderer will be shot this Friday, March 7, in South Carolina, the first execution of this type in the United States in 15 years.

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Brad Sigmon, 67, personally requested the unusual punishment, after fearing that the electric chair «burned and cooked alive,» wrote his lawyer Gerald King in a statement.

He also rejected a lethal injection after three previous inmates took more than 20 minutes to die after receiving the lethal dose of Pentobarbital, their lawyers said.

The execution of Brad Sigmon will take place in Columbia, capital of South Carolina, for killing in 2001 the parents of their ex -partner, David and Gladys Larke, whom he hit with a baseball bat to death.

Sigmon could choose between the lethal injection, the shooting or the electric chair, but it was in an «impossible» position and forced to make a «terribly cruel» decision on how to die, because the other two methods have risks of a high suffering, said his lawyer Gerald ‘Bo’ King.

Sigmon became the first inmate of South Carolina in choosing the new method of shooting in the State, and will become the first inmate to be executed by shooting since 2010.

According to judicial documents, the night of the crime, Sigmon had consumed crack and alcohol when he told a friend that «he would make Becky pay for having left him» and that «he would kill his parents.»

The researchers pointed out that the victims were in different rooms while Sigmon went from one place to another, butally hitting them to cause death.

The husband’s skull «was practically broken in two», as heard in court during the trial.

Then she kidnapped her ex -girlfriend at gunpoint, but she escaped from her car. He shot her while she ran, but failed, according to prosecutors, cited by the NY post medium.

According to the South Carolina Correctional Department (SCDC, acronym in English), the Executions Room in the prison where Sigmon is held was renewed and a bulletproof glass divides the witness hall and the death chamber.

The detainee would be tied to a metal chair, with a hood covering his head and the white marked in his heart. It would be located five meters from the three volunteers who shoot with rifles from an opening on a wall, according to the SCDC.