NATION : Multiple Killer Executed in Nevada
A multiple killer who murdered a transient because he “just got in my way” was executed by injection today after thanking his guards for “letting me die with dignity.”
William Paul Thompson, 52, was pronounced dead at 2:09 a.m. He gave no final statement but talked with guards as he lay on a gurney in Nevada’s former gas chamber, then stared at a ceiling fan as the injection was administered.
The 300-pound Thompson spent the hours before his execution talking with a minister and with a fellow Death Row inmate who is scheduled to die later this week, officials said.
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