Sometimes, in the quiet of the night, attorney Gerald Bo King sees his client, Brad Sigmon, die — again and again. The silence reminds him of the moments in the death chamber before the guns went off. On March 7, 2025, King watched as the curtain opened at 6 p.m., revealing Broad River Correctional Institution’s execution chamber and Sigmon, strapped to a slanted chair. His chin was held in place by restraints, and there was a large target on his chest. “The most unsettling aspect of it was the mechanics,” King recalls. Sigmon was dressed in black — which he joked was slimming — but was really meant to hide the blood. A hood hid his face. At 6:05 p.m., three blasts erupted from hidden ports, and before King could even register the sound of the shotguns wielded by prison volunteers, he watched as the target on his friend and client’s chest vaporized. “Suddenly there was this big hole in the middle of his chest that blood was spilling out of,” King recalls.…