Convicted Double Killer Executed in Texas
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A repentant condemned killer, Larry Allen Hayes, was executed Wednesday evening, a punishment he'd been requesting.
"I'm genuinely sorry for what I did," he said as the parents and other relatives of one of his two victims watched through a nearby window. "I ask you to reach down in your heart and forgive me. There's no excuse for what I did."
Mr. Hayes said there was "no good answer" for the 1999 shooting spree in which his wife and a convenience store employee were killed.
"I love you all. Thanks for sticking with me," he told several friends, who witnessed the execution.
Mr. Hayes ended his comments by thanking the officer who arrested him and gave him CPR after he had been shot. "He kept me alive and gave me a chance to get my life right," Mr. Hayes said, his voice shaky.
He was pronounced dead at 6:29 p.m., nine minutes after the lethal dose began.
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