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Tenn kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Tennessee this morning killed Steve Henley. From the AP While he was strapped onto a prison gurney awaiting execution, inmate Steve Henley said he hoped for peace for the family of the couple he was convicted of killing. And Henley proclaimed, as he had since 1985, that he wasn’t guilty of murdering Fred and Edna Stafford and setting their home on fire. Henley was put to death by lethal injection early Wednesday after exhausting all legal appeals a few of hours before the execution. “I’d like to say I hope this gives Fred and Edna’s family some peace,” Henley said in his last statement. “From my experience in life it won’t. The death of a family member never brings anything but pain.” Henley talked with his two adult children who were watching from an execution viewing room at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution until he said he could feel the cocktail take effect...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).