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02-18-2005, 09:50 AM
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) -- A man convicted of killing his mother and three other people in a dispute over money was put to death by lethal injection Thursday in a Texas prison.
Dennis Bagwell, 41, was the third person executed this year in the state, which leads the nation in carrying out capital punishment.
He was condemned for killing his mother, Leona McBee, 47, and three others in her mobile home near Stockdale, south of San Antonio, on September 20, 1995.
The victims were shot, stomped, choked and beaten to death because, according to testimony by Bagwell's girlfriend, he asked his mother for money and she gave him only $20.
Bagwell has said he did not commit the crime, but made no mention of it in his brief final statement while strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber.
"I love you all. All right, Warden, I'm ready," he said.
For his last meal, Bagwell requested a beefsteak with A1 sauce, six pieces of fried chicken, barbecued ribs, two hamburgers, a pound of fried bacon, a dozen scrambled eggs, french fries, onion rings, salad with ranch dressing, peach cobbler, ice tea, milk and coffee.
He was the 339th person executed in Texas since the state resumed the death penalty in 1982, six years after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a national ban on capital punishment.
The state currently has 10 more executions scheduled this year.
Dennis Bagwell, 41, was the third person executed this year in the state, which leads the nation in carrying out capital punishment.
He was condemned for killing his mother, Leona McBee, 47, and three others in her mobile home near Stockdale, south of San Antonio, on September 20, 1995.
The victims were shot, stomped, choked and beaten to death because, according to testimony by Bagwell's girlfriend, he asked his mother for money and she gave him only $20.
Bagwell has said he did not commit the crime, but made no mention of it in his brief final statement while strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber.
"I love you all. All right, Warden, I'm ready," he said.
For his last meal, Bagwell requested a beefsteak with A1 sauce, six pieces of fried chicken, barbecued ribs, two hamburgers, a pound of fried bacon, a dozen scrambled eggs, french fries, onion rings, salad with ranch dressing, peach cobbler, ice tea, milk and coffee.
He was the 339th person executed in Texas since the state resumed the death penalty in 1982, six years after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a national ban on capital punishment.
The state currently has 10 more executions scheduled this year.