When Brad Sigmon was given the choice between the electric chair and a firing squad, he probably didn’t expect his life to turn into a macabre game of “Would You Rather?” South Carolina’s execution laws left him with no good options, and now he’s set to become the state’s first firing squad execution in decades. With the Supreme Court denying his appeal, Sigmon’s story raises chilling questions about the ethics of capital punishment.
Macabre state of U.S. capital punishment leads death row prisoner to ‘choose’ firing squad
