[chance33_98]

Ping

[xm177e2]

Another one bites the dust...

[South40]

Good riddance.

[hatfieldmccoy]

Just taking out the trash

[doug from upland]

Rains would be alive had the scum stayed longer where he should have been -- in prison. And, Johnson would still be alive.

[MeekOneGOP]

AP
Kia Levoy Johnson

Johnson Executed For Videotaped Robbery-Slaying

Excerpt:

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A twice-paroled burglar was executed Wednesday evening for gunning down the night manager of a suburban San Antonio convenience store almost 10 years ago in a $23 robbery.

"Tell Mama I love her," Kia Levoy Johnson, 38, said when asked by a prison warden if he had a final statement. "Tell the kids I love them too. See y'all," he said, directing his comments to his brother, watching through a window a few feet away.

He never looked through an adjacent window where the parents and brother and sister of his victim watched.

Johnson, who has four children, gasped a couple of times as the lethal drugs began to take effect and was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m., seven minutes after the dose began.

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[LibKill]

Not so much an execution but rather more like pulling the flush handle on a toilet.