Father executed for setting fire that killed three kids
(curses, obscene gesture to ex-wife) Excerpt:HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Spewing profanities at his ex-wife standing a few feet away, an angry former auto mechanic was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of his three young children in a fire at their home two days before Christmas 12 years ago.
"The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit," Cameron Willingham, an Ardmore, Okla., native, said. "I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do."
Willingham, 36, said, "From God's dust I came and to dust I will return so the Earth shall become my throne. I gotta go, Road Dog."
He expressed love to someone named Gabby and then addressed his ex-wife, Stacy Kuykendall, who was watching about 8 feet away through a window. He told her repeatedly in obscenity-laced language that he hoped she would "rot in hell" and attempted to maneuver his hand, strapped at the wrist, into an obscene gesture.
His former wife showed no reaction to the outburst. She declined to speak to reporters.
Willingham was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m., seven minutes after the lethal dose began flowing through his veins.
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