Cedric Ransom
Murderer from Fort Worth executedHe used glass shard to try to stab attorney, prosecutor during trial
07/24/2003
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Fort Worth man who attacked one of his own attorneys and a prosecutor during his capital murder trial was executed Wednesday for robbing and fatally shooting a gun dealer, one of four slayings authorities linked him to during a 17-day spree in 1991.
In a brief final statement, Cedric Ransom thanked a friend and spiritual adviser who were present to watch him die.
"You have been beautiful to me. Without you in my life, I would not have been able to make it like this. Probably I would have put up a good fight. You have calmed me," he said.
Mr. Ransom, 29, was the 19th Texas inmate executed this year.
"He was a bad guy," said Richard Bland, one of the Tarrant County prosecutors who tried Mr. Ransom's case.
Besides the Dec. 7, 1991, slaying of optometrist and part-time gun dealer Herbert Primm, Mr. Bland said Mr. Ransom was involved in three fatal robberies of convenience stores.