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Death Row inmate choosing gruesome rare execution method made chilling comment after committing murder

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Updated 18:00 22 Feb 2025 GMTPublished 17:36 22 Feb 2025 GMT

Death Row inmate choosing gruesome rare execution method made chilling comment after committing murder

The death row inmate is set to be executed next month

Callum Jones

Callum Jones

The death row inmate who has chosen an execution method that hasn't been performed in 15 years made a terrifying comment as to why he committed a double murder.

Back in 2001, Brad Sigmon was convicted for the murder of his ex Rebecca Barbre's parents in South Carolina.

Sigmon, 67, beat her parents to death with a baseball bat in their home, before he abducted Rebecca at gunpoint, who luckily escaped.

The death row inmate was handed a 30-year sentence for first-degree burglary, on top of two death sentences for the double murder, with his scheduled execution date being 7 March, 2025.

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Brad Sigmon is set to be executed next month (South Carolina Department of Corrections)
Brad Sigmon is set to be executed next month (South Carolina Department of Corrections)

After admitting to his dreadful crimes to authorities, Sigmon made a chilling comment as to why he committed murder.

"I couldn’t have her, I wasn’t going to let anybody else have her," he said (via CBS News).

Sigmon's chosen execution method is to be shot to death by a firing squad, with the other options being death by electric chair or lethal injection.

In just a few weeks, he will become the fourth prisoner to be executed by a firing squad since 1976, with the last one taking place in Utah in 2010 with the death of Ronnie Lee Gardner, as well as the first to be executed via this method in South Carolina.

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The state received approval to conduct firing squad execution methods in 2022, NBC News reports, with a state law having previously been approved declaring electric chair or lethal injections as legal options for death row inmates.

As to how the execution will take place, Sigmon will be strapped to a metal chair and have a hood placed over his head with a 'target' placed over his heart.

He will then be fired at by three Correctional volunteers with live ammunition through a 'rectangular opening'.

Sigmon has been on death row for over two decades (Getty Stock Photo)
Sigmon has been on death row for over two decades (Getty Stock Photo)

According to Gerald 'Bo' King, Sigmon's attorney, the death row inmate decided to go against the electric chair because it would 'burn and cook him alive', however, he added that the other option was 'just as monstrous'.

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He continued: "If he chose lethal injection, he risked the prolonged death suffered by all three of the men South Carolina has executed since September — three men Brad knew and cared for — who remained alive, strapped to a gurney, for more than twenty minutes."

In regards to what will happen to him, King added: "Brad has no illusions about what being shot will do to his body.

"He does not wish to inflict that pain on his family, the witnesses, or the execution team. But, given South Carolina’s unnecessary and unconscionable secrecy, Brad is choosing as best he can."

Featured Image Credit: Brad Sigmon legal team

Topics: Death Row, Crime

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