Posted on 05/20/2009 12:27:33 AM PDT by JoeProBono
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A man who fatally stabbed a convenience store clerk during a robbery 23 years ago apologized repeatedly to her relatives and to his mother before he was executed Tuesday. "I know I hurt you very bad," Michael Lynn Riley said to his victim's relatives, including her two daughters and husband. "I want you to know I'm sorry." Brandy Oaks said she accepted Riley's apology and was pleased to hear it. She was 4 when her mother, Wynona Harris, was killed. "This is a difficult day and there are no winners on either side," Oaks said. "Her spirit will live on in our hearts and in our lives." Riley, 51, also apologized to his mother, who was not present, for being "not the big son that you wanted me to be." Eight minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow, he was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. Riley was the 15th murderer executed this year in the nation's most active death penalty state.
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He had 23 extra years that he denied to his victim.
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A man who fatally stabbed a convenience store clerk during a robbery 23 years ago apologized repeatedly to her relatives and to his mother before he was executed Tuesday
23 FRIGGIN YEARS?
Are we insane or just weak and spineless.
If this scumbags sentence was death then it came around 20 years to late.
Why do we punish the families by making them relive their loved ones death 10, 15, 20, even 25 years later?
Looking at what is happen to American this very day I gotta go with we are both insane and weak and spinless..........
Now if only Pennsylvania would only grow some stones and do the same to the cop killer Mumia....
We can't have any starving lawyers, you know.
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