07-21-2011, 07:26 AM
post #97. he's dead.
From the death chamber, Stroman asked for God's grace and said hate in the world had to stop.
'Even though I lay on this gurney, seconds away from my death, I am at total peace,' he said.
He later called himself 'still a proud American, Texas loud, Texas proud.'
'God bless America. God bless everyone,' he added, then turned to the warden and said: 'Let's do this damn thing.'
post #98 got a 24 hour delay to debate taping of execution. --->
JACKSON -- With a video camera recording his last moments, Andrew Grant DeYoung was executed Thursday night at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center for killing three family members.
Georgia Department of Correction Andrew DeYoung was sentenced to death for killing his 41-year-old parents and 14-year-old sister in the family's northeast Cobb home in 1993.
DeYoung was declared dead at 8:04 p.m., fewer than 15 minutes after the process began. Lying prone, he barely moved throughout the execution. His parting words were: "I'm sorry for everyone I've hurt."
For the first time in Georgia, a videographer was present in the execution chamber, documenting DeYoung's death and his reaction to a new three-drug lethal injection that anti-death penalty activists said caused unnecessary pain and suffering. The videographer, accompanied by a woman taking notes, stood off to the side and was barely visible to witnesses.
DeYoung, however, only blinked his eyes and swallowed repeatedly, and showed no violent signs in death. He was checked by a nurse for consciousness shortly into the execution, a new procedure put in place. At 8:22 p.m., he was taken from the prison in a black Butts County Coronor van.
From the death chamber, Stroman asked for God's grace and said hate in the world had to stop.
'Even though I lay on this gurney, seconds away from my death, I am at total peace,' he said.
He later called himself 'still a proud American, Texas loud, Texas proud.'
'God bless America. God bless everyone,' he added, then turned to the warden and said: 'Let's do this damn thing.'
post #98 got a 24 hour delay to debate taping of execution. --->
JACKSON -- With a video camera recording his last moments, Andrew Grant DeYoung was executed Thursday night at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center for killing three family members.
Georgia Department of Correction Andrew DeYoung was sentenced to death for killing his 41-year-old parents and 14-year-old sister in the family's northeast Cobb home in 1993.
DeYoung was declared dead at 8:04 p.m., fewer than 15 minutes after the process began. Lying prone, he barely moved throughout the execution. His parting words were: "I'm sorry for everyone I've hurt."
For the first time in Georgia, a videographer was present in the execution chamber, documenting DeYoung's death and his reaction to a new three-drug lethal injection that anti-death penalty activists said caused unnecessary pain and suffering. The videographer, accompanied by a woman taking notes, stood off to the side and was barely visible to witnesses.
DeYoung, however, only blinked his eyes and swallowed repeatedly, and showed no violent signs in death. He was checked by a nurse for consciousness shortly into the execution, a new procedure put in place. At 8:22 p.m., he was taken from the prison in a black Butts County Coronor van.