He was, 59, sentenced to death for the 1989 rape and murder of 15-year-old neighbor India Roberts. The Georgia was put to death Tuesday night in the first execution since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma nearly two months ago. Before the drug was administered, he apologized to the family of the teen he was convicted of killing, "I ask and hope they will find peace in my death," the newspaper quoted him as saying. He became the first prisoner executed in Georgia since the state enacted a law that conceals the source of its drugs from the public and even the courts.
He was, 59, sentenced to death for the 1989 rape and murder of 15-year-old neighbor India Roberts. The Georgia was put to death Tuesday night in the first execution since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma nearly two months ago. Before the drug was administered, he apologized to the family of the teen he was convicted of killing, "I ask and hope they will find peace in my death," the newspaper quoted him as saying. He became the first prisoner executed in Georgia since the state enacted a law that conceals the source of its drugs from the public and even the courts.
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