The Nation - News from May 16, 1986
An apprentice butcher who spent his last hours fighting for a court order that would spare his life calmly recited a prayer and was executed Thursday in the Huntsville, Tex., prison for the murder, rape and mutilation of an Amarillo housewife. Jay Kelly Pinkerton, who was under two death sentences, was pronounced dead at 12:25 a.m. after being given a combination of lethal drugs. His father, Gene, witnessed the execution. Pinkerton was 17 when he broke into Sarah Donn Lawrence’s home in 1979, raped her and stabbed her more than 30 times with a bowie knife.
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