Condemned murderer Brad Sigmon chose original recipe Kentucky Fried Chicken, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy, biscuits, cheesecake, and sweet tea for his last meal before his firing squad execution at Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina on Friday, USA Today reports on the fast food chain getting some free advertising in a nationally-watched case.
“Brad’s death was horrifying and violent. It is unfathomable that, in 2025, South Carolina would execute one of its citizens in this bloody spectacle,” complained Signmon’s defense attorney, Gerald “Bo” King, adding that Signmon’s request for a few extra buckets of the fried chicken so “he could feed the men locked up with him” on death row “was denied” for unspecified reasons.
Sigmon, sentenced to death in 2002 for the gruesome baseball bat murders of his ex-girlfriend’s parents, Gladys and David Larke, had chosen to die by firing squad rather than the default lethal injection or the electric chair given the possibility of botching either, making him the first US inmate to be executed via the method since 2010. The inmate was strapped to a chair, blinded with a hood, and a doctor placed a target over his heart. Three corrections officers then took aim with rifles, all firing live rounds (traditionally one or more of the men on the firing squad is supposed to be given blanks so none of them truly know who did it) and Sigmon was pronounced dead at 6:08 PM.
Too bad he didn’t choose the electric chair. Headline would’ve been snappier.