Posted on 01/29/2004 9:47:53 AM PST by presidio9
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A death row inmate confessed to over a dozen killings just before he was executed Wednesday night, about a month after his punishment was postponed while courts considered an appeal.
After he was strapped to the death chamber gurney, Billy Frank Vickers, 58, admitted for the first time that he shot grocery store owner Phillip Kinslow during a botched robbery in 1993. He was being executed for that crime.
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You mean, you don't believe that this was an innocent man just trying to make the prison officials feel better? Shame, shame.
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