The Nation - News from Sept. 12, 1985
A convict who spent a decade on Death Row in Huntsville, Tex., for killing a man when he was 17 was executed by lethal injection early today after saying he was “ready to begin my journey.” “ About all I can say is goodby,” Charles Rumbaugh, 28, said as he lay strapped to a gurney with needles inserted into his arms. Rumbaugh was convicted of killing Michael Fiorillo, 58, during a 1975 holdup at his Amarillo jewelry store.
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