“Posthumous Tale” - last words before execution

The state of Texas is the leader in the United States in the number of executions - in thirty-two years, 518 convicts were injected there. In this issue you will find their last words.

Date of crime: September 17, 2000 Date of execution: October 28, 2014 Age: 32 years old Charge: together with two accomplices, shot three people and burned their corpses.

Date of crime: January 12, 1979 Date of execution: March 11, 1998 Age: 47 Charges: Raped a 27-year-old woman, then tied up her eight-year-old son and neighbors and set the house on fire.

Date of crime: April 1, 1999 Date of execution: June 16, 2011 Age: 32 Charge: Taylor, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, killed a black man by stabbing him multiple times with a homemade dagger.

Date of crime: May 19, 1999 Date of execution: May 15, 2013 Age: 37 Charges: Shot and killed a police officer after stealing a car.

Date of crime: July 27, 1997 Date of execution: July 28, 2005 Age: 29 Charges: Raped a 24-year-old girl, then strangled her and cut her throat.

Date of crime: September 2, 2002 Date of execution: April 26, 2012 Age: 29 years old Charge: While robbing a store, he shot and killed a man, attempted to rape two women, and fled the scene of the crime.

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Date of crime: November 13, 1991 Date of execution: November 12, 2013 Age: 49 years old Charge: kidnapped a 20-year-old young man and his 19-year-old fiancee and took them to an abandoned house, where he stabbed the man to death and raped the woman.

Date of crime: August 2, 1993 Date of execution: August 16, 2001 Age: 39 Charged: Beating to death with a metal rod an 80-year-old man and his wife, owners of a jewelry store, after they refused to lend him $30 for drugs.

Date of crime: June 7, 1993 Date of execution: April 11, 2007 Age: 38 Charged: raped and murdered a 17-year-old girl.

Date of crime: August 30, 1986 Date of execution: August 9, 2000 Age: 36 Charges: During a house robbery, beat to death its owner, a 79-year-old man, who later confessed to another murder.

Date of crime: August 20, 1997 Date of execution: March 20, 2007 Age: 42 Charges: During a store robbery, he shot and killed a 25-year-old employee and fled the scene with $4,000.

Date of crime: August 27, 1991 Date of execution: June 26, 2007 Age: 39 Charged: Entered his neighbors' home with an accomplice, held them hostage for several hours, then drove them to a remote location and shot them.

Date of crime: August 2, 1991 Date of execution: June 11, 2008 Age: 37 Charge: Raped and then shot his housemate.

Date of crime: December 8, 1985 Date of execution: March 31, 1994 Age: 33 Charge: Along with an accomplice, he kidnapped a 26-year-old man and his wife who worked in a restaurant, robbed the cash register and later killed the victim with five shots to the head.

Date of crime: May 18, 1996 Date of execution: April 20, 2005 Age: 42 Charges: Kidnapped and robbed a 40-year-old man, later stabbed him to death and ran over his body with a car.