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| Oklahoma Executes Man for 1989 Murder |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/31/2003 |
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A man convicted of first-degree murder for gunning down a rival drug dealer in the street was executed March 18 by injection. Walanzo Deon Robinson, 31, was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal. Robinson's two-minute final statement was inaudible through the prison sound system, but corrections officials said he maintained his innocence to the end. Robinson was convicted for the shooting death of Dennis Hill in May 1989. Witnesses said Robinson, who was 18 at the time, and Hill were arguing over who could sell cocaine on an Oklahoma City street corner when Robinson pulled out a handgun. As Hill tried to run away, Robinson shot him in the back, then shot him twice more as he lay in the street pleading for an ambulance. Robinson had alleged in his appeals that racial bias led the jury to give him the death sentence and that the evidence used to convict him was circumstantial and filled with discrepancy. Hill's brothers, Anthony and Cordell Lee, were present at the execution. 'It's been a long 13 years of waiting, pain and stress for me,' Anthony Lee said in a statement. 'And now the time has come when my mind can be free, but Dennis can still be in my heart.' Robinson is the third inmate executed in Oklahoma this year; four others are scheduled. |
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