747: Televised Executions
Oct 10, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 29 segments
These are strange times indeed. Nidal Hasan, the gunman behind the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is on death row and will be…
Oct 10, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 29 segments
These are strange times indeed. Nidal Hasan, the gunman behind the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, is on death row and will be…
The military goes, the U.S. military goes, this is the first execution they have carried out.
But then the last time they actually carried out an execution by firing squad, 1945.
I remember in a very early episode of this show, we actually looked up exactly what the guy was yelling in German.
I'm sure we did.
In general, the last two executions by firing squad in the U.S., the most recent one was just last year.
South Carolina, the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, and the inmate was Brad Sigmund, who was 67 years old.
And he selected that option himself from the methods, according to the AI overview here, which we can all trust, from the methods legally available under state statute.
The military goes, the U.S. military goes, this is the first execution they have carried out.
But then the last time they actually carried out an execution by firing squad, 1945.
I remember in a very early episode of this show, we actually looked up exactly what the guy was yelling in German.
I'm sure we did.
In general, the last two executions by firing squad in the U.S., the most recent one was just last year.
South Carolina, the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, and the inmate was Brad Sigmund, who was 67 years old.
And he selected that option himself from the methods, according to the AI overview here, which we can all trust, from the methods legally available under state statute.
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