An inmate from Texas was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday evening, December 11, for murder nearly 17 years ago my boss to state prison factory in Amarillo. While the man was serving his sentence for robbery with aggravating circumstances.
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46-year-old Travis Runnels was convicted for having cut the throat of 38-year-old Stanley Wylie on 29 Jan 2003.
According to prosecutors, Rennels killed Wiley because he did not like to work as a cleaner at a Shoe factory. They added that Runners wanted to get a job in the prison barbershop.
When the blood of the condemned began to introduce a fatal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital, Travis Runnels smiled and said that kisses my friends and advocates who watched the execution through a glass window. Then he suddenly blurted out: «woof, woof!» just before he made four quick breaths, then froze.
The prisoner was declared dead at 19:26 hours, 22 minutes after the drug began to flow into his blood. He became the 22nd prisoner executed this year in the United States, and the ninth in Texas.
According to eyewitnesses, Runnels looked at her sister and brother-in-law of his victim, who also watched the execution.
The execution was delayed for about an hour until the U.S. Supreme court considered the appeal of lawyers of Runnels.
Janet Gilger-Vanderzanden, one of his lawyers, said that Runnels has changed in 14 years on death row.
«He sincerely repented. The tragedy, for which he is responsible, will only worsen if its life will fade away,» added the lawyer, but the Supreme court rejected the appeal.
