Texas Executes ‘the Executioner’

Texas’ longest-imprisoned death row inmate was executed by injection Tuesday for using a stolen machine gun to kill a rural grocery store owner, one of four people slain during a crime spree almost 25 years ago.

Robert Excell White, 61, nicknamed “Excell the Executioner” by police, had been on death row since Aug. 26, 1974, longer than any of the 452 condemned men and women in Texas.

White’s final words were, “Send me to my maker, warden.”