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Inmate executed over '82 Dallas slaying

#1 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:28 am

Associated Press / The Dallas Morning News

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Convicted killer Ricky Morrow was executed Wednesday for the slaying of a Dallas savings and loan office worker during a robbery 22 years ago.

His voice choking with emotion, Mr. Morrow expressed love to family members and called them a blessing.

"I am so sorry you are going through what you are now," he told three sisters who watched from a few feet away. "But we are both headed to a better place."

He listed a number of people by their first names and said he loved them all.

Addressing his sisters again, he said, "Thank you for having been there for me – and our father and mother.

"Give them a hug and give them my love."

As the drugs began taking effect, he sputtered and gasped several times. Seven minutes later, at 6:32 p.m., he was pronounced dead.

Mr. Morrow, 53, acknowledged firing the shot that killed 26-year-old Mark Frazier.

But the former welder, who carried a gun in each hand during the $5,500 holdup in 1982, said he shouldn't have been sentenced to death because the shooting was an accident.

Mr. Morrow was the 17th Texas prisoner executed this year and the fourth this month. Another lethal injection is set for next week, and six are scheduled for November.
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#2 Postby Wnghs2007 » Thu Oct 21, 2004 7:49 pm

Hmmmm Interesting thanks for showing us :eek:
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#3 Postby george_r_1961 » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:43 am

How in the hell can shooting someone in a robbery be an accident? And what took the State of Texas so long execute this creep? :x
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#4 Postby yoda » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:49 am

george_r_1961 wrote:How in the hell can shooting someone in a robbery be an accident? And what took the State of Texas so long execute this creep? :x


Not to be on this person's side... but he could have accidentally pulled the trigger, or instead of shooting the ceiling or somewhere near him to show him he meant business he shot him...
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#5 Postby george_r_1961 » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:58 am

Do what???? Merely bringing a gun along on a crime is a felony. If someone gets killed by a gun during the commission if a crime its MURDER...plain and simple.
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#6 Postby yoda » Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:04 am

george_r_1961 wrote:Do what???? Merely bringing a gun along on a crime is a felony. If someone gets killed by a gun during the commission if a crime its MURDER...plain and simple.


Yes I know... I was just stating some possibilities...
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