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| Nevada death row inmate executed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/13/2004 |
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Death row inmate Terry Jess Dennis, resolute to the end about not wanting any appeals, was executed Thursday night at the Nevada State Prison for strangling a woman in a Reno motel room in 1999. Dennis was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m., state Corrections Director Jackie Crawford said. Dennis expressed no remorse and had no other last words, prison spokesman Fritz Schlottman added. Dennis, shackled at the ankles and wrists and sedated with Valium, showed no emotion as he was led into the prison's old gas chamber just before 9 p.m. and was hoisted onto a gurney. Once strapped down, he looked upward and never turned toward witnesses. The condemned man closed his eyes before a lethal injection was administered. Dennis had a final meal of two cheeseburgers and a Coke. Earlier in the day, he spent nearly three hours with his brother, Gary Dennis, but said he didn't want to talk with his estranged wife, who tried to contact him by telephone. Gary Dennis told The Associated Press that his brother, who had attempted suicide numerous times over the years, didn't want to stop his execution because "he saw this as an easy way to go, relatively painless." |
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