{"id":35457,"date":"2025-03-08T15:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/etched-in-my-mind-witness-to-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution-describes-killing\/"},"modified":"2025-03-08T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T15:23:05","slug":"etched-in-my-mind-witness-to-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution-describes-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/etched-in-my-mind-witness-to-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution-describes-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Etched in my mind\u2019: witness to South Carolina firing squad execution describes killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Sigmon was executed on Friday for the murders of his ex-girlfriend\u2019s parents in 2001<\/p>\n<p>A reporter for the Associated Press who watched as South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad has described the experience, saying that the experience of witnessing the killing was now \u201cetched\u201d in his mind.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Collins, who has witnessed executions in South Carolina for the news agency for 21 years and has now seen 11 people killed using three different methods, wrote a short essay about the experience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/08\/south-carolina-firing-squad\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Sigmon was executed on Friday for the murders of his ex-girlfriend\u2019s parents in 2001 A reporter for the Associated Press who watched as South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad has described the experience, saying that the experience of witnessing the killing was now \u201cetched\u201d in his mind. Jeffrey Collins, who has &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Etched in my mind\u2019: witness to South Carolina firing squad execution describes killing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/08\/etched-in-my-mind-witness-to-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution-describes-killing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Etched in my mind\u2019: witness to South Carolina firing squad execution describes killing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}