What a way to go.
Jeffrey Landrigan once killed a man in Oklahoma. He was tried, convicted, escaped, took it on the run, baby, and then ended up in Arizona. After crossing paths with additional resistance in the form of a human being, he killed that guy, too by strangling him, was caught, tried and convicted. This was back in the late 80s.
The difference between the two states: Arizona loves to lay down the death penalty, and you know, wait 20-plus years for our busted system of appeals to take its course, before going on to take the life of someone who can’t quite seem to get “societal values” correct.
So. There was a stay of execution recently in this case as the U.S. Supreme Court debated the use of one crucial ingredient in the mix of the “most humane” way of killing a dude, the lethal injection.
The vote came back 5-4 to move on with the killin’, and late last night Landrigan got to take his dead man walk.
When asked if he had any final words, the Oklahoma native simply stated, “I’d like to say ‘Thank you’ to my family for being here, and all my friends.” A quick silence was followed with, “Boomer Sooner!”
Don’t you know, at that moment, there was some dude in the execution room who wanted to launch into a discussion about college football?
Regardless, the anesthesia was administered, and after testing to see that Landrigan was fully sedated, the lethal concoction was added to the blood stream and Landrigan was pronounced dead minutes later.
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