Blind prisoner, convicted for the murder of his girlfriend, was executed on Thursday, December 5, in the electric chair in the state of Tennessee.
53-year-old Lee Hall was declared dead at 19:26 p.m. in a maximum security prison in Nashville. He chose the electric chair instead of your preferred Tennessee method of lethal injection. He also became the first blind prisoner in modern US history, who died in the electric chair.
Lee Hall is slated for execution by the electric chair tonight in Nashville, Tennessee@7pm. Hall will be the 12th person executed in Tennessee since 1976. pic.twitter.com/7lcvA0Rm7z
— John Ryan (@UKDeathRow_USA) December 5, 2019
When asked whether he wants to have the last word, Hall first asked for a glass of water, but he refused and again asked him if he wanted to say something.
«People can learn forgiveness and love and make the world a better place,» said Hall.
The Lobby had a vision when he came to death row a few decades ago, but according to the lawyers, he went blind due to an improperly treated glaucoma.
Lee Hall was sentenced to death for murder in April 1991 of his former girlfriend, 22-year-old traci crozier. He set fire to a container of gasoline and threw it into the car girls. Capacity exploded, and Tracy crozier received burns to more than 90% of the body. The next day she died in the hospital.
The sister of the deceased, Stacy Wooten, and her father, gene crozier, watched the execution Hall.
«I hope that today is the end of life of this monster will bring a little peace to all who suffered during these 28 years without my beautiful sister,» said Stacy Wooten after the execution.
Attorney Kelly Gleason requested the Governor of Tennessee to pardon the Lobby, but he refused. An hour before execution of the accused in his case refused to intervene and the U.S. Supreme court.
Tennessee is one of six States in which prisoners may choose the electric chair instead of lethal injection. Four of the six recent prisoners sentenced to death in Tennessee, has chosen the electric chair. According to them, they believe that this method is less painful than injection.
