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Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes

An Associated Press journalist served as media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad Friday in South Carolina.

Protestors demonstrate outside the scheduled execution of South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) I also pored over the transcript of his trial, including how prosecutors said it took less than two minutes for Sigmon to strike his ex-girlfriend’s parents nine times each in the head with a baseball bat, going back and forth between them in different rooms of their Greenville County home in 2001 until they were dead. The sky was a pretty pink and purple, a stark contrast to the death chamber’s florescent lights, gray firing squad chair and block walls that reminded me of a 1970s doctor’s office.

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