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(NewsNation) — The South Carolina inmate who died by the uncommon execution method of firing squad this week requested a past repast of KFC to stock with his decease enactment neighbors, but situation officials nixed the idea, his lawyer says.
Instead, convicted murderer Brad Sigmon was served his ain repast of Southern comfortableness food, according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. It consisted of 4 pieces of fried chicken, greenish beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits, cheesecake and saccharine tea, officials said.
If Sigmon had his way, helium would person shared 3 buckets of the archetypal look KFC with his chap decease enactment inmates, lawyer Gerald “Bo” Hunt said successful a prepared statement.
"That petition was denied,” helium said.
His last repast was served Wednesday evening, 2 days earlier Sigmon's execution. In the interim, helium ate cafeteria fare, a corrections section spokesperson said. She said she could not corroborate the accusation astir the petition for buckets of chicken.
On Friday evening, Sigmon was restrained successful a seat with a hood implicit his caput and a people connected his heart. A trio of unpaid marksmen fired simultaneously astatine 6 p.m. Columbia, S.C., time, and the inmate was pronounced dormant 3 minutes later, witnesses and officials said.
The 67-year-old inmate was convicted of fatally beating David and Gladys Larke, the parents of his ex-girlfriend, successful 2001. Sigmon kidnapped his ex-girlfriend astatine gunpoint with the intent of committing a murder-suicide, but she managed to escape.
According to a past connection work astatine his execution, Sigmon called for an extremity to superior punishment, saying it’s not supported by the New Testament.
