sigmund's lawyer say a state autopsy revealed excruciating conditions. say is akin to water boarding. the state says it's followed its protocols precisely. >> what we know from the firing squad is that a death by firing squad happens almost immediately. it doesn't mean it's not going to be painful. but lethal injection is absolutely painful, as we're now coming to realize. just takes longer. >> reporter: some legal experts say secrecy laws like south carolina's and common among death penalty states, hide issues with lethal injection. one of the reasons brad sigmund says that he's choosing execution by firing squad is that he feels he does not have enough information from the state about their lethal injection protocol. how does that work? >> i would not assume that the states know what they're doing. the states are using secrecy to hide what lethal injection is from a to z. they can't get the drugs that they need to inject. they can't get the qualified medical personnel that they need. and all too often, they can't access the prisoner's vein. the closer

sigmund and he was pronounced dead. what we know is that mr.sigmund did ask for his final meal to be kfc, which was fried chicken, green beans, potatoes and sweet tea. his lawyer told us that he wanted to share that with other inmates, but that wasn't allowed. ryan young, cnn, columbia, south carolina. >> and thank you, ryan, for that reporting. 50 minutes past the hour. right now, we are following a lot of stories. we also want to get you caught up in the world of sports as well. so still to come, the cleveland cavaliers rallied to extend their 13 game winning streak. we're going to bring you some of the highlights coming up. >> hi everybody. >> you see. >> people from radically different. >> views in the same conversation. >> we're going in. >> let's have some real talk. >> solving america. >> right here. cnn presents an encore presentation of hbo's. >> real time with bill. >> maher tonight at eight on cnn. >> are you buying a car on. >> your phone? yeah. >> i'm already pre-qualified for a carvana auto loan. mm-hmm. i better teach her about.

in south carolina tonight, brad sigmund's ex-girlfriend told usa today to remember her parents he beatwith a baseball bat saying, i didn't get to see them grow old. executions by lethal injection can sometimes take hours. by comparison, a firing squire is minutes. it is america's oldest method of state execution, some would say more efficient. late word from south carolina tonight, this death sentence has been carried out. the first time a prisoner in america has been killed by firing squad in the last 15 years. david. >> david: that execution just a short time ago. steve, thank you. >>> now to the new turn tonight in president trump's on off again tariffs. he said he would pause them for a month. tonight the president is now threatening canada with a tariff up to 250% on dairy and lumber. tonight what american builders say this could do immediately to the cost of construction and homes here in the u.s. rachel scott at the white house tonight. >> reporter: just 24 hours after declaring a temporary truce in his trade ward with canada and mexico, president trump today with a new tariff t

brad sigmund is convicted of murdering his ex girlfriend's parents at the home in 2001. a local church has held a vigil and his calling for the death penalty to be abolished since it was reinstated almost 5 decades ago. only 3 inmates have faced the firing squad. at least 22 people have been killed in a gun fight between gang members in ecuador. rival factions among the laws to give own is one of the most powerful drug gangs in the country were involved. the fighting broke out in the port city of quite a keel. ecuador has suffered worsting violence in recent years. during the rapid rise of drug cartels using its force to ship cocaine to the us. and europe. authorities in australia have issued evacuation orders for people on the east coast . this tropical psycho and alfred has towards the state of queensland. major ology is one. the storm could be the worse to hit the region in more than half a century saw a concrete for some president, the winds of up to 100 kilometers and now i have created huge swells along the strategies gold coast. this region is expected to pay the

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felony to knowingly sell travel-related services to facilitate prostitution-- an agenda item only sigmundld fully appreciate. there, at least he succeeded. new york's anti human trafficking bill of 2007 was signed into law on june 6th. we can only speculate as to how soon afterwards spitzer himself started breaking that law. spitzer goes from having won a landslide, having been the sheriff of wall street, where people stopped him on the street, to being a governor who's ordinary. ♪ and i think that must have been really, really difficult for him. paterson: when eliot spitzer was in the governor's mansion... ♪ ...he would walk around the mansion and look at the portraits and wonder what the former governors would wanna say to him. ♪ he definitely was looking for spiritual endorsement. there was so much acrimony involved. it was rocky. you ready for the grand finale? [laughs] tapper: march 9, 2008, governor spitzer-- what does he say? i got an email around 10:30 p.m, saying, "please be at my apartment at 7 a.m. tomorrow." this seems like an unusual request. this is--it's an amazing-- i knew

taylor is the executive director for south carolinians for alternatives to the death penalty, and sigmund's longtime spiritual advisor. reverend, thank you for being with us. and i just wonder is the clock is ticking at this point in time, what is on your mind? >> what is on our mind this afternoon? certainly holding brad and his family and also the people that are all involved in his case, his legal team and also the people that he has harmed. holding them all in prayer. making sure that everybody feels as supported and connected as possible to our movement. people who are far away, and also people who are local, and also making sure that when we hold vigil and protest outside of the prison, that we are able to do so in a way that is safe and in a way that is also honoring brad. >> so he's getting attention. a lot of attention because of this choice to die by firing squad. tell us what he's told you about this decision. >> yeah. so brad was faced with an impossible decision of whether he wanted to be pumped with poisons, that we are not legally allowed to know anything about, and that basi

sigmund's legal team called last night's execution horrifying and violent. cnn's legal analyst joey jackson joins us now. joey, this was only the fourth firing squad execution in nearly half a century. and to just get some context around this, back in 2021, south carolina passed a law that would allow for the use of firing squads in state executions. that legislation, partially motivated by the state's inability to get lethal injection drugs. do you think americans should be surprised that that this is that people are dying with the through the death penalty, with a firing by firing squad? >> yeah. >> you know, jessica, this. >> is. >> somewhat different as we know. and i know. >> society changes. >> all the time. >> norms change. values change. >> a lot. >> of things change. but this may. >> be a bridge too far for some, but apparently not for others. >> right? >> there is a school of thought out there which would suggest that death by firing squad. >> is even more. >> humane than other methods of death. you had. >> an. >> issue with. >> what they used to.