A South Carolina The man convicted of killing the parents of his ex-girlfriend with a baseball bat in 2001 was performed by shooting early on Friday evening.
Brad Sigmon, 67, was declared dead at 6.08 pm after he was shot by three voluntary prison employees on the Broad River Correctional Institution In Columbia, according to the Associated Press.
Sigmon, who previously admitted to kill the couple because his ex-girlfriend refused to come back to him, was blindfolded and tied to a chair with a target on his chest.
Brad Sigmon was convicted of killing the parents of his alienated girlfriend in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
The executioners, armed About 15 feet distance, bullets shot in his heart.
The volunteers all shot through openings in a wall at the same time, according to the AP. A dozen witnesses, sitting in a room separated from the room by bullet -resistant glass, could not see the executioners.
Only a few hours before the death penalty, the American Supreme Court denied an emergency movement to suspend execution because of the policy of South Carolina on secret fatal injection details.
Henry McMaster government denied Friday prior to implementation. (Joshua Boucher/The State/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and South Carolina Procurur -General Alan Wilson signed the action, despite his lawyers from his lawyers to commit the death penalty to life in prison.
Sigmon’s lawyers claimed that he was a model prisoner and took the murders while struggling with serious mental disorders.
He chose to die by shooting a squadron and designing according to his representation about the fears about the electric chair and deadly injection.
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The last meal of the double murderer was three buckets original recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken from KFC, his lawyer, Gerald “Bo” King, said Wyff4.
Sigmon’s last meal consisted of Kentucky Fried Chicken.
He reportedly ordered more than one bucket so that “he could share with the boys with whom he is locked up in the dead cell,” King said the outlet.
Sigmon said he killed victims Gladys Larke, 59, and David Larke, 62, after they had driven him out of a trailer they owned.
He then kidnapped his ex-girlfriend, Rebecca Armstrong, without success, who jumped out of his moving car while he said the prosecutors.
“My intention was to kill her and then myself,” said Sigmon in a confession that was typed by a detective after his arrest. “That was always my intention. If I couldn’t have her, I would not let anyone else have her. And I knew it was about to have her.”
Fire Squad image (AP)
Armstrong told USA Today this week Sigmon “should answer what he did”, and noted that his actions tore her family apart.
The murdered parents of five missed the births of several grandchildren and five great -grandchildren.
Armstrong, who does not believe in the death penalty, said she would not attend the execution.
This photo supplied by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the death room of the state in Columbia, SC, including the electric chair, right, and a chair of the shooting team, left. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
Her son, Ricky Sims, told The Greenville News that he would be there, with a few boots that were the last gift that his grandparents once gave him.
“He is going to pay for what he did,” Sims said the outlet. “He took two people away who would have done everything for their family. They were the rock of our family … They didn’t deserve it.”
Executions in South Carolina were resumed in September, when the State-out one of the leaders in executions-one ended 13 years ended in managing the death penalty.
It is one of only five states that allow the use of shooting squadrons in certain circumstances.
The chair in which John Albert Taylor was tied before he was executed by a shooting team on January 26, 1996 in Utah. (Lee Celano/Reuters)
Only three prisoners, all In UtahHis killed by shooting team in the US since the death penalty was recovered in 1976.
Ronnie Gardner was the last prisoner to be executed by Squad in 2010.
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Twenty -five executions were carried out in the US last year. Five have already been performed in 2025, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
King did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comments.
Michael Dorgan and The Associated Press from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.
