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| Okla., Ga. Put Convicted Killers to Death |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/07/2003 |
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A man convicted of first-degree murder for stabbing his girlfriend and her mother in 1988 was executed by injection March 25. John Michael Hooker, 49, was put to death at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his final appeal. He smiled at witnesses as the death chamber's curtains were drawn. 'To all my family and friends. I'm all hooked up. I can't even move,' he said. 'I'm at peace.' As his body went still, his pregnant daughter wept uncontrollably. 'Oh, Daddy,' she said as family members tried to console her. Leonard Stokes, the victims' son and brother, said in a statement that the execution brought a 'sense of relief. ... I can finally move on with my life and so can my family.' Hooker was convicted of stabbing Sylvia Stokes, 28, and Drusilla Morgan, 53. Stokes, the mother of Hooker's three young children, had moved out of their Oklahoma City apartment a week earlier. She had told her sister she feared Hooker would hurt her and the children. On the same day, a Georgia inmate was executed by injection for the robbery and murder of a man at a convenience store in 1984. Larry Eugene Moon, 57, was put to death at the state prison in Jackson, south of Atlanta. He always maintained he had been framed by a friend, and insisted in his final statement, 'I'm innocent.' Moon was convicted of shooting 34-year-old Ricky Callahan twice in the head at close range. Appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court and Georgia Supreme Court were denied March 25. |
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