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from media accounts: Dale Devon Scheanette [asked if he had any final statement] paused and said, “My only statement is that no cases ever tried have been error-free. Those are my words. No cases are error-free.” Nine minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow, he was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. Six relatives of the two slain women watched Scheanette take his final breath. He never looked at them. Scheanette, 35, became known as the “Bathtub Killer” after two women at the same apartment complex in Arlington in 1996 were found dead in half-filled bathtubs, strangled, raped and bound with duct tape. The slayings terrorized the Dallas-Fort Worth area and went unsolved for more than three years, until Scheanette was arrested for a burglary and his fingerprints were tied to the killings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 10, 2009 (boomark / email).