Inmate executed over '82 Dallas slaying
Posted: 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.
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.
