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Violent and sudden. What a firing squad execution looked like through my eyes

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Associated Press reporter has served as a media eyewitness to the execution of Brad Sigmon by firing squad.

He has witnessed three different methods: nine lethal injections and an electric chair execution.

The firing squad is faster, more violent and more violent than lethal injection, he says.

The target with the red bullseye that had been on his chest disappeared instantly as Sigmon 's body flinched.

Collins was one of three media witnesses for the firing squad execution of Brad Sigmon .

He has witnessed more than a quarter of the state's executions since the death penalty was reinstated.

Two more men on death row are out of appeals, and the state Supreme Court appears ready to schedule their deaths at five-week intervals.