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| Man executed for grizzly killing |
| By Washington Blade |
| Published: 07/18/2005 |
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Robert Dale Conklin was executed last Tuesday evening for the 1984 murder and dismemberment of a former boyfriend, despite last-minute appeals that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Conklin declined to make a final statement but did ask for a prayer as he faced lethal injection at the Georgia Diagnostic & Classification Prison in Jackson, 45 minutes south of Atlanta. He died at 7:44 p.m., according to the state Department of Corrections. Conklin became the second inmate put to death in Georgia this year. A handful of reporters witnessed the execution, along with a brother and a sister-in-law of the victim and three friends of Conklin. Prior to the execution, Conklin ate all of his last meal, which included filet mignon wrapped with bacon; de-veined shrimp sautéed in garlic butter with lemon; baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives and real bacon bits; corn on the cob; asparagus with hollandaise sauce; French bread with butter; goat cheese; cantaloupe; apple pie; vanilla bean ice cream and iced tea, according to the corrections department. Conklin, 44, who was sentenced to death in June 1984 for the murder of George Grant Crooks, a 28-year-old Smyrna attorney. |
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