This week in 1991

August 8th, 2013 by admin

“I cannot change what I have done in the past, no matter how much I wish that I could. Nothing I can say or do will stop the pain that I have caused. I do not expect people to forgive me for what I have done in my life. For I am and have paid for my ways.”

— Albert Clozza, convicted of rape and murder, electric chair, Virginia.
Executed July 24, 1991

Clozza confessed to having raped and murdered of Patricia Beth Bolton, age thirteen, after abducting her as she walked home. Clozza did not ask for clemency. He was the 150th inmate executed since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

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