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Missouri Executes Skillicorn Hours After Texas Execution

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"Convicted killers executed in Mo., Texas," is Jim Salter's AP report, via Google News.Two death row inmates spent some of their last moments apologizing for their crimes before they were put to death six hours apart in Texas and Missouri, which executed its first convict in four years.In a lengthy, written final statement, Dennis Skillicorn expressed sorrow for the 1994 murder of a Richard Drummond, who stopped to offer help after a car carrying Skillicorn and two other men stalled along Interstate 70."The last 15 years I've lived daily with the remorse of my actions," Skillicorn wrote. "And I am deeply sorry for all the Drummond family has been forced to endure."Early Wednesday, Skillicorn mouthed words to his wife and two spiritual advisers as the first drug was administered to him...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).