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| Oklahoma Executes Man Convicted of Killing Four |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 12/23/2002 |
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Last week Oklahoma executed by lethal injection a man convicted of murdering four people in a Tulsa bar robbery in 1990, prison officials said. Jerry Lynn McCracken, 35, died strapped to a table in the Oklahoma death chamber, five minutes after receiving an injection of lethal chemicals, prison officials said. McCracken was the fifth person in the state to be executed this year and the 53rd since executions resumed in Oklahoma in 1990. Two more executions are planned this month in the state. McCracken said a prayer as he waited for the lethal injection and died singing a hymn, prison officials said. McCracken and an accomplice, David Keith Lawrence, were convicted of killing four people while robbing the Tulsa bar on Oct. 14, 1990. The pair killed bartenders Steve A. Smith, 34, and Carol McDaniels, 42, and customers Tyrell Boyd, 27, and Timothy Sheets, 39. The pair took $350 in the robbery. They blamed each other for the shootings. Lawrence pleaded guilty and was given a life sentence. McCracken was found guilty in 1991 and sentenced to death. 'I sincerely apologize to you. Please forgive me,' McCracken said to the victims' families in his last words, prison officials said. McCracken's last requested meal was fried chicken, a package of hard cheddar cheese, barbecue sauce, cottage cheese, slice of cherry pie, and a two-liter bottle of a soft drink. McCracken became a devout Christian while in prison. He admitted guilt in the robbery and told the state's pardon and parole board that to ask for clemency would be 'disrespectful,' saying he was ready to die. |
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