A convicted murderer was killed by
injection recently for abducting and fatally stabbing a woman and then
setting her body on fire.
Richard Wayne Jones, 40, acknowledged
burning Tammy Livingston, 27, but said he wasn't responsible for the 17
stab wounds that killed her.
``I want the victim's family to
know I didn't commit this crime,'' Jones said while strapped to the death
chamber gurney.
He criticized prosecutors for convicting
an innocent man, saying, ``I hope you can live with it.''
Jones, who had a past that included
theft, burglary and robbery convictions and a parole violation that returned
him to prison, was on parole for about 41/2 months when he was arrested
for killing Livingston on Feb. 19, 1986.
Firefighters responding to a call
about a grass fire discovered her remains.
Jones blamed the murder on his sister
and her boyfriend who were looking for money and drugs and said she came
to him asking that he help get rid of the body.
Jones was the 30th Texas prisoner
put to death this year.
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