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Missouri executes Skillicorn for 1994 murder

Dennis Skillicorn was calm ? ?remarkably calm? ? in his final hours. The convicted murderer was executed at the state corrections facility here at 12:34 a.m. Wednesday, 11 minutes after being administered a series of injections that left him unconscious and ultimately stopped his heart. He became the first Missouri inmate to be put to death in nearly four years. He was the 67th since capital punishment was reinstated in the state in 1989. Skillicorn declined a sedative in the hours leading up to the execution, prison officials said, and was accommodating when led into chamber and secured on a gurney. His final meal was a double cheeseburger, fries and a slice of cheesecake from a local restaurant. The execution was scheduled to begin at 12:01 a...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).