Brad Sigmon - a 67-year-old man from South Carolina became the first US death row inmate to be executed by firing squad in the last 15 years. He was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents. 

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On Friday (March 7), Sigmon was shot to death by the three state corrections department volunteers - who fired rifles at his chest with specially designed bullets. 

What was his last words? 

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In 2001, Sigmon murdered David and Gladys Larke with a baseball bat and later kidnapped his girlfriend at gunpoint. He later tried to shoot her but she escaped. 

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He was ordered to be executed by electric chair and lethal injection - but he requested death by firing squad. 

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During his execution, three members of his girlfriend's family were present there to witness it. People present there said he was strapped to a chair, which had a basin underneath to catch blood. 

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Sigmon told witnesses he wanted his final statement "to be one of love and a calling to my fellow Christians to help us end the death penalty," BBC reported. 

"An eye for an eye was used as justification to the jury for seeking the death penalty ... At that time, I was too ignorant to know how wrong that was. Why? Because we no longer live under the Old Testament law but now live under the New Testament," he was heard saying, as reported by the British newspaper. 

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(With inputs from agencies)