This week in 2009

“I wish to apologize to the people who I have hurt and I ask for their forgiveness. I don’t deserve it, but I do ask for it.”

— Jack Trawick, convicted of murder, lethal injection, Alabama.
Executed June 11, 2009

Trawick was a self-professed serial killer who faced the death penalty for kidnapping, stabbing, and strangling twenty-one-year-old Stephanie Gach in 1992. He claimed to have killed at least four other people and was serving a life sentence for one of those murders. After the execution, Gach’s sister Heather expressed surprise at Trawick’s last words. “The Jack Trawick I’ve seen has been kind of unremorseful, reveling in the attention he got for being a serial killer. But he gave no indication of that tonight.”