This week in 1985

“I am as a grain of sand on the beach of the black race. The black race has lost its pride and dignity and is slowly dying from within and without. My death ends my tears, and the fortune of watching my race slowly die. If there is such a thing as an Antichrist, it ain’t one man, but the whole white race.”

— Marvin Francois, convicted of murder, electric chair, Florida.
Executed May 29, 1985

When Francois’s mask fell off during the robbery of a drug house, according to witnesses, he said all eight people who saw his face had to die. He shot six victims in the head with a shotgun. Two others were wounded but survived to help convict Francois.