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Inmate denies murdering ex-roommate before execution, says "but hey, whatever makes you happy"
By cbsnews.com
Published: 09/27/2018

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A Texas inmate who taunted a jury to sentence him to death was executed Wednesday evening for torturing and drowning an East Texas woman in his bathtub and then stuffing her body into a barrel. Troy Clark was convicted of the May 1998 slaying of a former roommate, Christina Muse of Tyler.

Authorities said that Clark, a drug dealer, had worried that Muse would snitch on him.

Clark chuckled as he addressed several friends watching through a window a few feet from him, telling them a number of times that he loved them and "it's all good."

"I'm not the one who killed Christina," he said. "But, hey, whatever makes you happy."

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