{"id":23697,"date":"2025-03-08T17:54:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T17:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23697"},"modified":"2025-03-08T17:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T17:54:05","slug":"final-words-of-death-row-inmate-who-died-in-south-carolinas-first-ever-execution-by-firing-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23697","title":{"rendered":"Final words of death row inmate who died in South Carolina’s first ever execution by firing squad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A death row inmate has become the first person in 15 years to die by way of firing squad, and he’s only the fourth since 1976.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brad Sigmon completed his sentence yesterday (March 7), as three state corrections department volunteers unloaded simultaneously a round of 100-grain TAP Urban bullet each from their .308-caliber Winchester rifles.<\/p>\n

The convicted double murderer became the 1,613th person to die by way of execution in the\u00a0US<\/a>\u00a0since 1977, and in his final words, the 67-year-old preached that the bible doesn’t condone the killing of another person.<\/p>\n

Sigmon, who brutally beat his ex-girlfriend’s\u00a0parents<\/a>\u00a0to death with a baseball bat back in 2002, cited four quotes from the Bible in an attempt to underline his point that the New Testament doesn’t permit the killing of ‘another man’.<\/p>\n

“I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to my fellow\u00a0Christians<\/a>\u00a0to help us end the death penalty,” read aloud his attorney from his statement.<\/p>\n

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Brad Sigmon was on death row for over two decades (South Carolina Department of Corrections)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“An eye for an eye was used as justification to the\u00a0jury<\/a>\u00a0for seeking the death penalty. At that time, I was too ignorant to know how wrong that was. Why? Because we no longer live under the Old Testament law but now live under the New Testament.”<\/p>\n

Concluding with: “We are not under God\u2019s grace and mercy.”<\/p>\n

For his execution, which took place inside the death chamber at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, Sigmon was hooded and wore a black jumpsuit with a target placed over his heart, and was shot while strapped to a metal chair that was sat on a catch basin.<\/p>\n

At 6.05pm, the volunteers, who were positioned 15 feet away and hidden from the viewing area, unloaded on him. A\u00a0doctor<\/a>\u00a0then examined him for about a minute and a half before declaring him dead at 6.08pm.<\/p>\n

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Sigmon was seated on the firing squad chair pictured at the back (South Carolina Department of Corrections)<\/cite><\/div>\n

The man served 23 years on death row for the killing of David and Gladys Larke – who he chose to murder after their daughter broke up with him a week before.<\/p>\n

Following his guilty conviction, Sigmon was handed two\u00a0life<\/a>\u00a0sentences in addition to a 30-year jail term for first-degree burglary.<\/p>\n

While his lawyers attempted to have Sigmon be held behind bars for the rest of his life, a jury ultimately decided to sentence him to death.<\/p>\n

In South Carolina, where Sigmon was being held,\u00a0death row<\/a>\u00a0inmates can choose their means of execution.<\/p>\n

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