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Alabama kills

By cdw

from local media: Twice-convicted murderer Jack Trawick died by lethal injection tonight, as relatives of the two murder victims watched. Trawick, 62, who also had claimed to have committed another Birmingham area murder and two in the Pacific northwest, was executed at 6:17 p.m. for abducting, stabbing and strangling Stephanie Gach, 21, of Irondale on the night of Oct. 9, 1992. He had been on Death Row at Holman Correctional Facility since 1994, and no legal efforts were made to stop his execution. In his final statement, Trawick said: “I wish to apologize to the people whom I have hurt and I ask for their forgiveness. I don’t deserve it but I do ask for it.” Stephanie Gach’s sister Heather watched Trawick die. So did Donna Middlebrooks, sister of Aileen Pruitt, 26, whom Trawick was convicted of stabbing to death a few months before Gach’s death...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).