The South Carolina double murderer, executed by the fire squad, told his brother that he was “a great spirit and ready to participate in the Lord” when he faced the end of the mise.
According to brother Mike, Brad Sigmon, who became the first American death row inmate to die after firing his team for the first time in 15 years, was dignified in the face of his death.
“He was proud when he sat down to be shot. I'm not going to be relieved about it, but he said what he wanted to say and he died the way he wanted to die,” said 66-year-old Mike Sigmon.
Brad Sigmon, 67, was sentenced to death in July 2002 after being convicted of brutally killing his parents, David and Gladys Lark, at a Greenville County home, for luring his three-year girlfriend, Rebecca Barbare.
Mike said Brad's three brothers and two sisters had visited his final prison to meet him a week ago, and they all hugged him for the last time. Robbie, one of Brad's sons, made a personal visit with her father on Wednesday.
Sigmon's 85-year-old mother suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is in a nursing home. Her children have not told her about Brad's execution, and they have no plans, Mike told the Post.
Mike Sigmon said the brothers, who were captured in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, 11 days after the murder, wanted to die when they committed the murder in 2001.
“He's been apologizing since the day he was captured,” he said. “He wanted a death by the police. He called my mother and she said you knew my phone was being tapped. He knew. He wanted to pretend he had a gun on his back, so the police would shoot him, but they worked on him so fast they didn't have time to respond to him.”
Brad was high in crack cocaine and when he told his friend “I'll get Becky by leaving her way,” he got drunk and told his court documents that he “connects her parents.”
Sigmon then broke into Lalke's house in Greenville County and defeated Larks on April 27, 2001 with a baseball bat. He invited Barbare.
In his confession, Sigmon said, “I couldn't have her, I had no intention of having someone else have her.”
Sigmon was declared dead at 6:08 pm after arming his rifles in line behind a wall about 15 feet apart and fired a shot at a target of a hooded killer's heart at 6:05pm
He chose to die by firing the squad because he was worried that executions via electric chairs and fatal injections would be drawn out and painful, according to his lawyer.
Mike Sigmon said on Saturday that the media blew out many imbalances in the incident — and claimed that the baseball bat used in the murder was “just a little souvenir bat,” Mike Sigmon called his brother on Saturday, saying he “cared about everyone.”
“There were a lot of people who called me all night. I'm sorry about your siblings,” he said. “Brad actually tried to get three chicken to share with his cellmate for his final meal. He was always trying to help others eat a decent meal. We gave him money and he used it to get another guy a decent dinner.”
“But everyone thinks he is this evil person. Everyone wants to continue blowing it up. There's a video all over YouTube by people who don't know Jacksh-T about Blood.”
