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The Danny Paul Bible, known as the "killer of ice bites", died of a lethal injection, said the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The 66-year-old man had appealed to the Supreme Court. that he was "very weak and sick" and that his veins were not able to sustain lethal injection drug injection, making them likely to "blow", a petition filed by his lawyers. a botched execution was very high because of his declining health, adding that he would suffer serious pain.
A South Texas District Judge in Houston and the US Circuit's Fifth Circuit Court dismissed his appeal to the Supreme Court, which dismissed the motion for a stay of execution on Wednesday. of the Court.
After receiving lethal injection, the Bible breathed heavily for about two minutes, trembling with Parkinson's tremors as he whispered "it hurts," said one witness.
Keri Blakinger, a Houston Chronicle media witness, says that the Bible then began to snore and closed an eye before stopping moving.
Jeremy Desel, a public information officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, heard him quietly saying what looked like "burning" and "hurting".
Desel says the Bible refused the last words and he was pronounced dead at 6:32 pm (local time).
"Danny Paul Bible is as vile and evil I know it will burn in hell for all eternity," said Larry Lance, the brother of one of the Bible's victims in a statement after the execution. 19659002]
The "pickaxe"
Bible was a serial rapist and a murderer who stabbed at least two women with ice picks, officials said.
In 1979, the Bible raped and stabbed his cousin's best friend. The body of Inez Deaton, 20, wife and mother of a 2-year-old girl, was found in a field in Harris County, Texas, according to the archive.
Authorities say that the Bible also "left a trace of carnage" in 1983 when it killed two other women and four months' son of one of them the same day.
Bible was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of one of the women but was released on bail in 1992. After his release, he was accused to have raped five young family members, officials said.
The murder of Deaton was not solved for nearly two decades until the Bible was arrested in Louisiana for another rape and confessed to multiple crimes, including the murder of Deaton
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"The actions of some criminals are so heinous, they deserve the label" worst of the worst, "said Harris District Attorney Kim Ogg, before the execution of the Bible. [19659002]
A killing platoon or lethal gas
The Bible was calling for either death by gas or firing squad, which are not offered in Texas but are available in a few other States
Oklahoma recently decided to use inert gas inhalation as the main method of executing the death penalty after struggling to find legally lethal injectable drugs.
nitrogen to perform the performances.Nitrogen is one of many inert gases that can cause hypoxia, oxygen deficiency that
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has stated that inert gas inhalation is used in countries that have legalized badisted suicide. According to the Information Center on the death penalty, gas inhalation is an alternative to lethal injection.
