This week in 1987
August 7th, 2013 by admin
“I’d just like to tell the Richard family that I’m very, very sorry. I hope in their hearts they can forgive.”
— Willie Celestine, convicted of rape and murder, electric chair, Louisiana.
Executed July 20, 1987
Serial rapist Celestine faced the electric chair for the rape, beating, and strangulation of eighty-one-year-old Marceliane Richard. Witnesses to the execution included his attorney Millard Farmer and death-penalty opponent Sister Helen Prejean, who served as his spiritual adviser.
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