Riley
Posted on 05/19/2009 10:41:09 PM PDT by Birch T. Barlow
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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Good riddance.
Justice delayed is justice denied. Why did it take so long?
Talk is cheap.
Burn in Hell.
Not a particularly Christian attitude. He deserved to die, but as a Christian I hope he found Christ first.
Appeals. He was one of the pre-Texas-Seven-express-lane inmates. For more recent unwanted guests, Texas is averaging about seven years IIRC.
I am a proponent of the death penalty and believe in reaping what you sow.
If this man found Christ, may god have mercy on his soul.
The murderer received justice belatedly for his heinous crime, but this man did seem to have genuine remorse for what he did unlike most murderers in the hour of judgment. I hope the man made his peace with God before he died.
In a state the performs executions faster than any other, good question.
23 years....
Justice seems to move SO slow...
SOB should have died 22 years ago for the crime or during the crime if the lady could have shot this sorry trash and lived.
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