TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (Reuters) - Mexican-American drug lord and murderer Juan Raul Garza was executed at daybreak on Tuesday, in the same spot and with the same drugs that killed Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh eight days earlier.
"I just want to say that I'm sorry and I apologize for all the pain and grief that I have caused. I ask for your forgiveness and God bless," Garza, 44, said just before the lethal ****tail was injected into his body.
He was pronounced dead three minutes later at 7:09 a.m. (8:09 a.m. EDT), said Harley Lappin, warden of the U.S. penitentiary near this Indiana college town.
Garza, leader of a huge Texas-based marijuana smuggling ring, was sentenced to die for committing a drug-related murder and ordering two other people killed.
Prosecutors described him as a vicious, dictatorial gang leader who gave little thought to wiping out rivals or suspected traitors, but his crimes drew few headlines outside the Texas border region near Brownsville where he grew up.
He was the second person executed by the federal government since 1963. McVeigh was the first.
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My, my. Do I notice a severe lack of controversy here, for the execution of someone who didn't kill 160 people?
"I just want to say that I'm sorry and I apologize for all the pain and grief that I have caused. I ask for your forgiveness and God bless," Garza, 44, said just before the lethal ****tail was injected into his body.
He was pronounced dead three minutes later at 7:09 a.m. (8:09 a.m. EDT), said Harley Lappin, warden of the U.S. penitentiary near this Indiana college town.
Garza, leader of a huge Texas-based marijuana smuggling ring, was sentenced to die for committing a drug-related murder and ordering two other people killed.
Prosecutors described him as a vicious, dictatorial gang leader who gave little thought to wiping out rivals or suspected traitors, but his crimes drew few headlines outside the Texas border region near Brownsville where he grew up.
He was the second person executed by the federal government since 1963. McVeigh was the first.
Want to learn more?http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=topnews&StoryID=77305
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My, my. Do I notice a severe lack of controversy here, for the execution of someone who didn't kill 160 people?