Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: EXECUTED IN TEXAS Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:30:30 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;AMERICAN SCENE \HD EXECUTED IN TEXAS \BY THE WASHINGTON TIMES Execution site: Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, at 1:17 a.m. EST, yesterday. Method: Lethal injection. Crime: Jeffery Lee Griffin, 37, was executed for kidnapping and murdering David Sobotik, a 19-year-old convenience store manager, during a 1978 robbery that also left a 7-year-old boy dead. Appeals: The U.S. Supreme Court and several lower courts rejected petitions for a reprieve Wednesday. Last words: "I want to say bye to my mom. I love her; my aunt; my fiance, Regina, in England. I'm going to be free." Then he nodded to an assistant warden and told him, "You're a good warden. I'll see you. I'm ready." The numbers: 53rd person executed in Texas since the state resumed carrying out capital punishment in 1982, and the 185th person nationwide since the 1976 Supreme Court ruling allowing states to resume use of the death penalty. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM