Posted on 10/20/2004 7:17:28 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Convicted killer Ricky Morrow was executed Wednesday for the slaying of a Dallas savings and loan office worker during a robbery 22 years ago.
His voice choking with emotion, Morrow expressed love to family members and called them a blessing.
"I am so sorry you are going through what you are now," he told three sisters who watched from a few feet away. "But we are both headed to a better place."
He listed a number of people by their first names and said he loved them all.
Addressing his sisters again, he said, "Thank you for having been there for me - and our father and mother."
"Give them a hug and give them my love."
As the drugs began taking effect, he sputtered and gasped several times. Seven minutes later, at 6:32 p.m., he was pronounced dead.
Morrow, 53, acknowledged firing the shot that killed 26-year-old Mark Frazier. But the former welder who carried a gun in each hand during the $5,500 holdup said he shouldn't have been sentenced to death for the 1982 slaying because the shooting was an accident.
Morrow was the 17th Texas prisoner executed this year and the fourth this month. Another lethal injection is set for next week and six are scheduled for November.
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Sorry about that, the injection was an accident.
bu bye scum.
another good day in justiceland!!
Have a nice trip. Hope it works out for you.
Why is this even worth commenting upon? It would be more significant to announce you squashed a cockroach with your shoe.
No crime in never never land of CA
22 years on Death Row. That's about 15 years more than we usually take.
Isn't Darlie Routier due to be iced pretty soon?
Yeah, he was one of the remaining scumbags that was allowed basically unlimited appeals since his case was well before the law Clinton signed limiting access to the federal courts for death penalty cases.
She's got another appeal or two to exhaust.
He outlasted the bank that he robbed.
Texas seems to have gotten off to a slow start this year, but is picking up the pace as we near the holidays.
I read the article....I seemed to have missed the part where he apologized to his victims family...the guy was a stone killer, out on parole at the time.
Dates aren't set too far in advance, but I think she'll be gone sometime in 2006. Perhaps a little later, because the media always gives us so much crap about executing a woman, even if she deliberately murders her own children.
Yeah, I walked into a bank with a loaded weapon in each hand and the fact that I shot and killed someone is just an accident! Twenty-two years???
Makes me proud to be a Texan..........we take care of the scum here. Good riddence!
In Texas we have the death penalty and we use it.
Too bad Mark Frazier didn't get to express his love for his family before he died.
Is it wrong that I'm glad this murderer is dead?
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