This week in 1997

“You all brought me here to be executed, not to make a speech. That’s it.”

— Charles Livingston, convicted of robbery and murder, lethal injection, Texas.
Executed November 21, 1997

Outside a Houston grocery store, Livingston waited under the van of Janet Caldwell until she returned, whereupon he attempted to take her purse. During the ensuing struggle Livingston shot Caldwell twice in the throat, and then fled. He was caught and identified shortly later.