Killer Admits Slayings, Demands Execution
In a profanity-ridden letter to the U.S. Supreme Court, convicted murderer William Kirkpatrick Jr. admitted killing two young Taco Bell employees in Burbank, said he felt no remorse for the crimes and demanded to be executed.
“I’m guilty as s---!” said the letter, signed by Kirkpatrick and dated July 6, 1995. “I feel no remorse! Give me my execution date and kill me!”
Kirkpatrick, 35, is scheduled to be executed Jan. 26 at San Quentin. He would be the third person executed since California voters reinstated the death penalty in 1978, and the first to die by lethal injection.
The Pasadena man was convicted of fatally shooting a 27-year-old Taco Bell manager and a 16-year-old employee during a 1983 robbery that netted him about $650. An accomplice who acted as a lookout was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
In Kirkpatrick’s letter, released by the Supreme Court on Thursday, he addressed the high court judges as “sorry white trash” and demanded that they let him be executed, protesting against several appeals filed on his behalf in recent years by attorneys he disavows.
In an earlier letter to the court, he admitted stabbing one of his lawyers 17 times at San Quentin, adding: “Unfortunately the piece of s--- lives.” Prison officials confirmed that Kirkpatrick did stab a lawyer multiple times with a pencil.
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