Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Kansas Death Penalty Focus

Criminal Law

: Kansas Death Penalty Focus

Inmate Sets Cell Ablaze Before Execution

CNN.comHUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A death-row inmate who had vowed not to go willingly to the death chamber set a fire in his cell Thursday, but when the time came, walked to his death without a fight.Roy Lee Pippin, 51, was executed by lethal injection for the deaths of two Florida men gunned down in a dispute about missing drug money. From the gurney, he blamed the jury, the trial judge and the prosecutor, and said that he was innocent."You will answer to your maker when God has found out that you have executed an innocent man. May God have mercy on your souls," he said.He ended his final statement by telling the warden, "Go ahead warden, murder me. Take me home Jesus."He was pronounced dead at 6:42 p.m., eight minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow...continue to full post

Full post as published by Kansas Death Penalty Focus on March 30, 2007 (boomark / email).