07-01-2011, 06:37 PM
A convicted child killer, branded among the 'worst of the worst' by a state clemency official, for the 1988 murder of a nine-year-old girl, has been executed.
Richard Lynn Bible, 49, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Florence, Arizona, about 60 miles south-east of Phoenix, and pronounced dead at 11.11am local time.
Bible has spent more than two decades on death row since he was convicted of snatching Jennifer Wilson from her bicycle in Flagstaff, molesting her and bludgeoning her to death.
His last words were: 'I'd like to thank my family, my lawyer. Love 'em all and everything's OK,' Barrett Marson, an Arizona Department of Corrections spokesman, told reporters.
Bible requested a final meal of fried eggs with melted cheese, gravy with sausage, hash brown potatoes, biscuits, grape jelly, peanut butter and chocolate milk.