Mexican Murderer Gets Lethal Injection
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A Mexican citizen convicted in a contract killing laughed as he was put to death, hours after the governor rejected pleas by Mexican officials to stop the execution. “Today is a good day to die,” Mario Benjamin Murphy, 25, said as a lethal injection began flowing into his body. He then began laughing and said: “I forgive all of you. I hope God does too.” Murphy was part of a hit squad hired to kill James Radcliff, a Virginia Beach man beaten to death in July 1991.
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