Killer Who Sought Prosthesis Executed
Authorities Tuesday executed a one-legged murderer after denying him a request to be fitted with a prosthetic device so he could walk to his death “like a man.”
Rodolfo Hernandez, 52, who received a last-minute temporary reprieve from execution last month so he could give police information about unsolved murders, was pushed into the death row prison Huntsville in a wheelchair.
Hernandez, whose diabetes led to the amputation of his left leg below the knee last summer, accused the state of refusing to fit him with an artificial leg because of the $8,000 expense.
Prison officials said the reason was a recurring infection.
Hernandez was executed for the 1985 murder of a Mexican immigrant.
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