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| Delaware Executes Convicted Killer |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/27/2001 |
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A 46-year-old man who killed a woman hours after he escaped from a prison in 1986 was executed by injection early Thursday. Until last week, David Dawson had insisted he was innocent of the death of Madeline Kisner, 44, who was stabbed a dozen times. But at a hearing a week ago before the state Board of Pardons, Dawson admitted responsibility In 1986, with six years left on a burglary sentence, Dawson and three other inmates broke out of a Delaware prison by crawling through a sewer pipe. A few hours later, prosecutors said, he killed Kisner and stole money and a car from her home. The U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-ditch appeal Wednesday by Dawson's defense lawyers. The high court had ruled in Dawson's favor before. In 1992, the court found prosecutors had violated the prisoner's First Amendment rights by suggesting to a jury that the convicted felon deserved to die because he was a member of a racist prison gang. The court threw out his death sentence, but a second jury in 1993 recommended that Dawson be put to death. |
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