The first death penalty is made in America after 15 years – BBC News in Serbian

In America, for the first time in 15 years, a prisoner was sentenced to death sentence.

The Supreme Court of South Carolina approved the execution of Brad Zigmon, sentenced to death in 2002. for the killing of the former girl baseball with a bat in their home in their home in a year earlier.

The Court, however, expressed concern about the impression that the execution could leave to witnesses who must be present to perform the deathcare according to the law.

Zigmons Lawyers say that he chose death by shooting, faced impossible choice between execution methods – whether to choose violent death by shooting or risking slower death by deadly injection.

What happens during the execution by shooting?

Southern Carolina executed more than 40 prisoners using an electric chair or deadly injection since 1985. Years.

The law that enables the use of shooting lines during executions in this state was adopted in 2021.

According to the Factual Punishment Information Center – the American Organization for Human Rights – this Law was partially motivated by the state of state to provide ingredients for deadly injections.

Shortly after the adoption of the law, the Ministry of Correctional Institutions of South Carolina has improved infrastructure so it can execute executions by shooting.

The same room where prisoners were killed by deadly injection – known as death chamber – will now be used to execute by shooting.

The Ministry explained the procedure at the time of execution, to attend witnesses.

« The prisoner will wear a prison uniform and will be moved to the chamber. The prisoner will then get the opportunity to make the last statement. « 

Zigmon will then be tied to a chair in the chamber of death and will be pulled over his head, and the target placed over the heart.

« After the prison manager reads an order to execute execution, the team will open fire. After shootings, the doctor will review the prisoner.

« Since the prisoner was declared dead, the curtain would be hooked and witnesses will be sent out. Members of the shooting water are volunteer workers in SCDC, « it is added.

Eyewitnesses: Who is in the « Chamber of Death »?

Journalists, lawyers and family members usually sit in space next to the « Chamber of death 'to watch the execution on the other side of the glass partition.

Witnesses should be able to see Zigmon until he was declared dead.

DRI Swift, a firearms instructor, which is the owner of the training of firearms in Melkin in South Carolina, expressed concern to this method of execution for the American broadcaster, e.g.

« It will be traumatic.

« And if three shots went to the same place that was targeted, it will be a very large hole. There will be a lot of blood, « Swift said.

There is also a risk of ricochet bullets to hit people or furniture, or from laying lead particles and harmful gases if the execution is performed inside in a relatively cramped space.

Likewise, hearing may also occur in those who look at the shooting line.

For example, he reported that SCDC did not answer these complaints.

The origin of death by shooting

In America since 1977. three executables were performed – and all took place in Juta – the last year was completed. Years.

But death by shooting has a long history in the United States.

At least 185 people were executed by shooting during the civil war, according to Christopher Ku Calter in the article published in Kliveland State Lo Rivju.

Mark Smith, Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, said the shooting lines used both sides in the civil war to create a « public spectacle, vision of terror » so that the soldiers would obey obedient.

« The man occasionally he could sit on his own suitcase or with a blindfold, who shot a six or seven people, one of whom had a cherish in the pipe, » Professor Smith said.

« These were events whose intention was to shock and did it. »

From 1608. year, at least 144 civilians were executed by shooting, almost everyone in Juta.

Global scenario

Amnesty International says 144 countries abolished the death penalty by law or in practice.

However, 2023. year, 1,153 executions were performed, according to the data collected by Amnesti.

That figure does not cover China, which is believed to execute thousands of people every year.

Countries that execute the death penalty use suspension, deadly injections, electric chair, disclogation and shooting.

Amnesty says at least eight countries executed people by shooting 2020. years.

These are China, Iran, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Taiwan and Yemen.

Justin Macola, Deputy Director of the research for Amnesty International, said that the execution of being tried « trying to maintain in the life of the sentence that had long been sent to history. »

« There is no human way to kill an individual. Whether it is by shooting, deadly injection, suspension, choking or electric chair, the death penalty is at the end of a game, inhumane and a humiliating penalty that is a symptom of violence, not his solution, « he said.

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