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| Ex-police Officer Executed in Oklahoma |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 08/12/2002 |
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A former Oklahoma assistant police chief who beat to death a disabled Vietnam War veteran was executed by lethal injection on July 30. Earl Alexander Frederick Sr., 51, was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m., six minutes after receiving a lethal cocktail of chemicals at a state prison, Oklahoma Department of Corrections spokesman Jerry Massie said. Frederick offered an apology to two of the victim's family members who witnessed the execution, Massie said. 'I'm sorry that it has taken this long for justice to be served for y'all, but it is being served now,' Massie quoted Frederick as saying in a final statement. Frederick was convicted of the November 1989 murder of 41-year-old Bradford Lee Beck, a disabled U.S. veteran. Beck's partially decomposed body was discovered in a field outside of Oklahoma City in January 1990. The medical examiner listed the cause of death as undetermined head trauma. Frederick, who was found competent to stand trial in two hearings, claimed to have multiple-personality disorder. When he was arrested, he told police it was his personality named 'Jeff' that made him do bad things. He also claimed to have had amnesia and could not remember the killing. At the time of his arrest, he faced charges of murder in a separate case in the shotgun death of a Texas man. He was not prosecuted for the crime after being given the death penalty in Oklahoma. Frederick was the fourth Oklahoma prisoner executed this year and the 52nd since the state reinstated the death penalty in 1977 and resumed executions in 1990. |
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