Sigmon's attorney said they wanted to find out if Marion Bowman was given two doses of pentobarbital at his execution on Jan. 31 and have time to look over his autopsy report so Sigmon can decide how he wants to die — with a lethal injection, in the electric chair or by a firing squad.
South Carolina sets next execution date as inmate questions lethal injection doses The South Carolina Supreme Court has set a March 7 date for the latest execution in the state's suddenly busy death chamber.
The justices on Friday rejected a request from Brad Sigmon's lawyers to delay setting a date for his death until they get autopsy results from the inmate killed in last week's lethal injection, the third prisoner put to death since September.
Sigmon and two other inmates are out of their normal appeals and the state Supreme Court has promised to space out the executions across a minimum of five-week intervals to give prison staff and defense lawyers, who are often representing several condemned inmates, time to handle legal matters.
But another anesthesiologist who reviewed Moore's autopsy records for the state said fluid is often found in the lungs of prisoners killed by lethal injection, and the accounts by witnesses and other evidence gave no indication Moore was conscious beyond 30 seconds after the sedative was first administered.
