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| Dying Inmate to Lawyer: 'You're Fired' |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/20/2002 |
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A man convicted of raping and killing a 19-year-old college student in 1991 was executed by injection May 10 in Louisiana. Leslie Martin, 35, made no final statement but, after the drugs were injected, could be seen mouthing the words 'You're fired,' to his defense attorney who watched the execution. The lawyer, Clive Stafford-Smith, later said Martin's remarks were part of a long-running joke between the two. Martin was convicted in 1992 of killing Christina Burgin, a student at McNeese State University in Lake Charles. She was last seen alive leaving a lounge with Martin on June 20, 1991. Her decomposed body was found nearly two weeks later in a pumphouse in the rural southwestern Louisiana town of Iowa. Prosecutors said Martin raped Burgin and then strangled her to keep her from turning him in. |
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