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This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.
Between 2021 and 2023, 100% of all executions in the U.S. were done by lethal injection. In the last year and a half, 16% have involved other methods.
State law allows inmates to die by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Sigmon's lawyers said he also didn't choose the chair because he said he didn't want to be cooked alive.
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Lethal Injection, Electric Chair, or Firing Squad? An Inhumane Decision for Death Row Prisoners . South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month.
State law allows inmates to die by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Sigmon's lawyers said he also didn't choose the chair because he said he didn't want to be cooked alive.
Prisoners strapped to the electric chair have previously burst into flames, as their flesh melted away, blood 'boiled', and eyes 'exploded in their skulls'.