Execution
On Friday, March 5, 1993, Sawyer was executed by lethal injection at Louisiana State Penitentiary (commonly known as Angola) at the age of 42.
His final statement was as follows, “"I would like to tell young kids who might read this, that drinking and handing (sic) with the wrong people will get you where I am sitting right here and I hope that nobody else ever has to go through what i have gone through, expecially (sic) young kids. I'm sorry for any hurt and pain they say I caused. I have no hard feelings toward anyone. I just want my sister, my brother-in-law, my son, all of my family and friends to know that I love them and I'll be waiting on them in heaven."
In a petition to the Pardon Board before his execution, Sawyer alleged he was mentally unfit, suffering from organic brain damage, and therefore should not be executed.
Read more about this topic: Robert Sawyer (murderer)
Famous quotes containing the word execution:
“Union of Religious Sentiments begets a surprising confidence and Ecclesiastical Establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the Execution of Mischievous Projects.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“I am gradually drifting to the opinion that this Rebellion can only be crushed finally by either the execution of all the traitors or the abolition of slavery. Crushed, I mean, so as to remove all danger of its breaking out again in the future.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Some hours seem not to be occasion for any deed, but for resolves to draw breath in. We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose that thrills us, but shut our doors behind us and ramble with prepared mind, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root or hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward which is fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upward to the light.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)