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| Inmate Confesses Just Before Execution |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 02/02/2004 |
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A death row inmate confessed to more than a dozen killings just before he was executed last Wednesday night for the slaying of a grocery store owner in 1993. After he was strapped to the death chamber gurney, Billy Frank Vickers, 58, admitted for the first time that he shot Phillip Kinslow during a botched robbery in 1993. He was being executed for that crime. "It was nothing personal, I was just trying to make a living," Vickers said. Vickers also took responsibility for more than a dozen other killings. He said there were "several more that I had done or that I had been a part of, and I'm sorry but I am not sure how many. There must be a dozen or 14, I believe, all total." Vickers also expressed remorse. "I wish to say to my family, I'm sorry for all the grief I've put you through," he said. He died at 6:21 p.m., six minutes after lethal dose began. It was his second visit to the death house in about seven weeks. Vickers' execution was postponed last month while courts considered an appeal challenging the constitutionality of the lethal drug combination used in executions. A final appeal failed last Wednesday, with the Supreme Court ruling about 30 minutes before Vickers was taken to the death house. |
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