07-29-2011, 10:25 AM
An axe murderer who bludgeoned a woman to death during a botched home burglary today became the state of Delaware's first inmate to be executed since 2005.
Robert Jackson III, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna and pronounced dead at 12.12am.
He lifted his head when asked for his last words shortly after midnight.
Searching the window between the execution chamber and witnesses, he asked if the two children of his victim, Elizabeth Girardi, were watching.
He said: 'Are the Girardis in there? Christopher and Claudia, if you are in there, I've never faulted you for your anger. I would have been mad myself.'
He denied to them that he had killed their mother and suggested, in his last moments, that his accomplice in the burglary Anthony Lachette was the murderer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1TVKoPhzE
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Robert Jackson III, 38, was put to death by lethal injection at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna and pronounced dead at 12.12am.
He lifted his head when asked for his last words shortly after midnight.
Searching the window between the execution chamber and witnesses, he asked if the two children of his victim, Elizabeth Girardi, were watching.
He said: 'Are the Girardis in there? Christopher and Claudia, if you are in there, I've never faulted you for your anger. I would have been mad myself.'
He denied to them that he had killed their mother and suggested, in his last moments, that his accomplice in the burglary Anthony Lachette was the murderer.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1TVKoPhzE