"Posthumous tale" — the last words before the execution

The state of Texas is the leader in the United States in the number of capital executions — 518 convicts have been injected there for thirty-two years. In this issue you will find their last words.

Date of the crime: September 17, 2000 Date of execution: October 28, 2014 Age: 32 years old Charge: together with two accomplices shot three people and burned their corpses.

Date of the crime: January 12, 1979 Date of execution: March 11, 1998 Age: 47 years old Charge: raped a 27-year-old woman, and then tied up her eight-year-old son and neighbors and set fire to the house.

Date of the crime: April 1, 1999 Date of execution: June 16, 2011 Age: 32 years old Charge: Taylor, who was a member of the Aryan brotherhood of Texas, killed a black man by stabbing him with a homemade dagger.

Date of the crime: May 19, 1999 Date of execution: May 15, 2013 Age: 37 years old Charge: after stealing a car shot a police officer.

Date of the crime: July 27, 1997 Date of execution: July 28, 2005 Age: 29 years old Charge: raped a 24-year-old girl, then strangled her and cut her throat.

Date of the crime: September 2, 2002 Date of execution: April 26, 2012 Age: 29 years old Charge: during a shop robbery, he shot a man, tried to rape two women and fled the scene of the crime.

Date of the crime: November 13, 1991 Date of execution: November 12, 2013 Age: 49 years old Charge: kidnapped a 20-year-old young man and his 19-year-old bride and took them to an abandoned house, where he stabbed a man with a knife and raped a woman.

Date of the crime: August 2, 1993 Date of execution: August 16, 2001 Age: 39 years old Charge: beat to death with a metal rod an 80-year-old man and his wife, owners of a jewelry store, after they refused to lend him $ 30 for drugs.

Date of the crime: June 7, 1993 Date of execution: April 11, 2007 Age: 38 years old Charge: raped and killed a 17-year-old girl.

Date of the crime: August 30, 1986 Date of execution: August 9, 2000 Age: 36 years old Charge: during a robbery of a house, he beat to death its owner, a 79-year-old man, later confessed to another murder.

Date of the crime: August 20, 1997 Date of execution: March 20, 2007 Age: 42 years old Charge: during a shop robbery, he shot a 25-year-old employee and fled the scene of the crime, taking 4 thousand dollars.

Date of the crime: August 27, 1991 Date of execution: June 26, 2007 Age: 39 years old Charge: with an accomplice he entered the house of his neighbors, held them hostage for several hours, and then took them to a remote place and shot them.

Date of the crime: August 2, 1991 Date of execution: June 11, 2008 Age: 37 years old Charge: raped and then shot a housemate.

Date of the crime: December 8, 1985 Date of execution: March 31, 1994 Age: 33 years old Charge: together with an accomplice, he kidnapped a 26-year-old man and his wife who worked in a restaurant, robbed the cash register and later killed the victim with five shots to the head.

Date of the crime: May 18, 1996 Date of execution: April 20, 2005 Age: 42 years old Charge: kidnapped and robbed a 40-year-old man, later stabbed him and ran over the body with a car.