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Convicted Killer of 10-Year-Old Girl He Impregnated Is Executed in Texas
Associated Press ^
| Feb 11, 2004
| Michael Graczyk
Posted on 02/11/2004 6:41:43 PM PST by Pharmboy
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Maintaining his innocence, a convicted killer was executed Wednesday for a 1991 triple slaying in which one victims was a 10-year-old girl pregnant with his child. "I just want to say I am not sad or bitter with anybody," Edward Lagrone said in a brief final statement. "Like I've said from Day One, I didn't kill them. But I'm no better than the people that did."
He concluded by saying: "Jesus is Lord. That's all I have to say."
After the lethal injection, Lagrone, 46, sputtered and gasped before he was pronounced dead seven minutes later.
"I forgive him, because it's not right to hate a person," said Kendra Lloyd, who called her slain cousin, Shakeisha Lloyd, her "best friend."
"But I mean, he took my cousin away," she said after watching Lagrone die and breaking into sobs.
Shakeisha Lloyd was 17 weeks pregnant when Lagrone barged into her family's home before dawn and began shooting with a double-barreled shotgun. Shakeisha had completed the fourth grade the day before the shooting.
Two of the girl's great-aunts also were killed. An uncle was wounded.
"Just a cold-blooded murderer," said David Montague, the district attorney who prosecuted the case. Montague said DNA evidence linked Lagrone to the fetus.
Authorities believed Lagrone was enraged because Shakeisha's mother wouldn't drop a sexual assault complaint she filed against him for impregnating her daughter. The mother once dated Lagrone.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday afternoon declined to hear a final appeal.
Lagrone was released from prison in 1984 after serving seven years of a 20-year term for another murder.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: capitaloffense; execution; fryem; justice; outtahere
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To: deport
Omar Anderson, Lagrone's son, serving a life prison term for a 1992 murderLike father, like son. How nice...
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posted on
02/11/2004 7:54:43 PM PST
by
Born Conservative
("Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - John F. Kennedy)
To: Born Conservative
Yep sounds like murder was a part of these peoples activities..... Three committed murder....
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posted on
02/11/2004 7:57:13 PM PST
by
deport
(BUSH - CHENEY 2004 ..... 265 days until Tuesday 2 November)
To: Pharmboy
After all is said and done Death Penalty opponents can't point to one example of someone wrongly executed in this country.
Must be one sociopathic and delusional person to say your innocent moments before being put to death. I recently read about Ted Bundy's last day before he was executed. The man cried, whimpered, and begged while being prepped for his execution. Such sickening cowardice from a man who is known to have tortured, raped, and killed 33 women but experts believe he most likely killed over a 100. I can't fathom such evil.
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posted on
02/11/2004 7:57:44 PM PST
by
Burkeman1
("If you see ten troubles comin down the road, nine will run into the ditch before they reach you")
To: ValerieUSA
Yeah he won't do it to another little girl EVER.
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:01:55 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: martin_fierro
She's in heaven. Makes me sick looking at her pic knowing what this filth did...why do these a$$holes find religion AFTER they do the crimes?
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:03:57 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: Pharmboy
John F. Kerry, Viet Nam veteran, loses another of his esteemed supporters.
To: I still care
It was probably an instance of "he needed killin'" but they couldn't just let her walk...
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:08:37 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(<tag>)
To: All
I can always count on my state to do the right thing.
To: 76834
The best thing about the death penalty is, they will never murder again. Society needs to protect it's self. This is the only way to do that. We need justice AND protection. When this murderer bit the dust we can all sleep a little sounder.
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:12:36 PM PST
by
timydnuc
("Give me Liberty, or give me death"!)
To: maro
don't you think that when its black on black crime (apparently) that there is no outrage, no condemnation of the cops and the prosecutor...
it seems that when blacks kill other blacks, and then are caught, they are the best buddies....
but, just don't accuse a minority of killing or hurting a Caucasian......in those circumstances, its got to be police bigotry.....
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:19:06 PM PST
by
cherry
To: cyborg
"He wont do it...ever again".
Who says the death penalty doesn't deter crime?
vaudine
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:22:46 PM PST
by
vaudine
To: 76834
Amen to that!
And he had some kind of nerve lying like that about not killing those girls and then saying "Jesus is Lord."
We know he did it because he made the mistake of leaving someone alive.
Done, and done.
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:39:53 PM PST
by
Houmatt
(Justice For Carlie!)
To: cyborg
She's in heaven. Makes me sick looking at her pic knowing what this filth did...why do these a$$holes find religion AFTER they do the crimes?Doesn't sound like his religion was worth much.
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:48:24 PM PST
by
Luke Skyfreeper
(Michael <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/index_real.php">miserable failure</a>Moore)
To: Darnright
Plus, one of the aunts was blind, deaf and bed-ridden when Lagrone murdered her.
He was also out on parole for a 1977 murder when he committed these murders.
To: Luke Skyfreeper
I guess not.
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posted on
02/11/2004 8:55:59 PM PST
by
cyborg
To: deport
Wish I could have given him the needle myself. Why were Sean Penn and Jesse Jackson not wringing their hands over this animal?
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posted on
02/11/2004 10:12:18 PM PST
by
dougherty
(I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
-Michelangelo)
To: patriotUSA
He concluded by saying: "Jesus is Lord"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. [Matt 7:21]
Lagrone went to his death lying in his teeth.
To: Burkeman1
"The man [Bundy]
cried, whimpered, and begged while being prepped for his execution."I didn't know that. Thanks for posting it. Now I feel a lot better.
To: Pharmboy
Texas is not California. There is no Nine Circus to gum up the execution machine.
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posted on
02/11/2004 11:30:47 PM PST
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: Pharmboy; Sparta; luckodeirish; archy; Houmatt; BJClinton; SpookBrat; bonehead4freedom; ...
Convicted Killer of 10-Year-Old Girl
He Impregnated Is Executed in Texas Excerpt: HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - Maintaining his innocence, a convicted killer was executed Wednesday for a 1991 triple slaying in which one victims was a 10-year-old girl pregnant with his child. "I just want to say I am not sad or bitter with anybody," Edward Lagrone said in a brief final statement. "Like I've said from Day One, I didn't kill them. But I'm no better than the people that did."
He concluded by saying: "Jesus is Lord. That's all I have to say."
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas Executions ping list!. . .don't be shy.
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posted on
02/12/2004 12:07:36 PM PST
by
MeekOneGOP
(Check out this HILARIOUS story !! haha!: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1060580/posts)
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