Friday Firing Squad
Anyone planning a trip to South Carolina this week?
When you think of the term "human garbage," someone like Brad Sigmon might come to mind.
[...] One evening, after spending the night drinking and smoking crack with his pal, Eugene Strube, he made plans to kidnap Becky the next morning. He would go next door to her parents' house and tie them up while she took her children to school so they couldn't call the police. When Becky returned, he'd force her into his car and go. Strube promised to help, but he backed out at the last minute. So, Sigmon took matters into his own hands.Rather than tie the Larkes up, he went to their home with a baseball bat. David asked his wife to get his gun, but before she could, Sigmon began beating him in the head. He then went into the other room and hit Gladys with the bat. He then went back and forth, beating each person until they were dead. When Becky arrived home, he forced her into her car, planning to take her to her North Carolina. She managed to escape, but he shot her several times with her father's gun before running out of bullets.
Police eventually located him in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and he confessed to all of his crimes, even admitting that he'd planned to kill Becky and then himself. In 2009, he was convicted of two counts of murder and burglary in the first degree and sentenced to death in South Carolina. Barring any last-minute reprieve, he'll die via firing squad in the Palmetto State on March 7.
He turned down electrocution and lethal injection, so we say, "good riddance." We really need to bring back the older, more traditional execution methods, if for nothing else than the ability of the punishments to shock and appall the criminal element. Those who argue the death penalty isn't effective have yet to present anyone with a concrete example of an executed inmate ever committing another crime.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
20 Comments:
I absolutely agree with your last statement.
Capital punishment has a record of ZERO recidivism.
Drawing and quartering should be the only option available. Publicly televised, with a scrolling ticker on the bottom of the screen detailing the name of the convict, and the crime(s) committed...
That'd be a good start. Wanna bet we have one of those and then the rest of the J/O's get to thinking about stirring up shit?
Should be broadcast live on all major channels in the country
Should be a Pay Per View Event!
Could this P.O.S. Possibly use the “mental illness episode” defense to get a new trial ? Oh South Carolina huh , alright I offer to pay for the bullets to get the job done then. 😈What about the devil made me do it defense?
Do they need a volunteer shooter?
A guillotine would get the job done.
I'd squeeze that trigger!
Firing squad is great, but I would prefer that they brought back hanging. The long drop and a sudden stop seems like a scary deterrent to me.
The assholes lawyer said his piece of shit client is not getting " justice". It only took TWENTY FOUR YEARS to get the asshole strapped in. TWENTY FOUR YEARS of partying and raping other prisoners in the penitentiary. If he was fucking miserable he would have killed himself a long time ago. The parasite has been stealing oxygen for almost twenty five years. Fuck him.
It’s all Becky’s fault.
Back when Illinois still had a death penalty, I used to think that public hangings in the Daley Center Plaza (from the Picasso) would have worked well.
Only if subscription funds goes to the victim(s) or their estate.
We'd also need to get rid of the "twenty years of filing futile appeals while living better on death row than he did on the outside" part.
Rent Soldier Field, sell tickets, sell beer, sell slices of pizza…put the prick at the 50 yard line…release the lions, tigers and bears and let him try to run. Donate the money to victims.
There is a good book out on executions that were carried out at the Cook County Jail. It's called May God Have Mercy on Their Souls. All of the executions were usually carried out within a year.
Not from someone like you! You'll end up shooting your foot.
Democrats will tax it...
“We really need to bring back the older, more traditional execution methods, if for nothing else than the ability of the punishments to shock and appall the criminal element. Those who argue the death penalty isn't effective have yet to present anyone with a concrete example of an executed inmate ever committing another crime.”
100%. The death penalty is a specific deterrent.
Senate passes bill to make the firing squad Idaho’s primary form of execution.
https://idahonews.com/news/local/senate-passes-bill-to-make-the-firing-squad-idahos-primary-form-of-execution
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