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| Inmate recites poem minutes before execution |
| By WOAI |
| Published: 04/21/2005 |
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An animated and upbeat condemned murderer Douglas Roberts went to his death Wednesday night smiling and with a poem. Strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney in Huntsville, Roberts was asked if he had any last words before lethal drugs were pumped into his arms. He replied: "I've been hanging around this Popsicle stand way too long. ... When I die, bury me deep, lay two speakers at my feet, put some headphones on my head and rock and roll me when I'm dead." The 42-year-old was executed Wednesday for abducting and fatally stabbing a San Antonio man whose car he stole nine years ago while he was high on cocaine. As five relatives of victim Jerry Lewis Velez watched through a window, Roberts repeatedly smiled and mouthed "I loved you" to friends watching through another window. Once the drugs took effect, however, he gasped and sputtered. Eight minutes later he was pronounced dead, making him the fifth Texas inmate executed this year. |
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