This Week in 2009
“Bye, I’m ready.”
– Bobby Wayne Woods, convicted of murder, lethal injection, Texas. Executed December 3, 2009.
Woods broke into the home of ex-girlfriend Schwana Patterson through an open window. He attacked Patterson’s daughter, Sarah, and sexually molested her. After kidnapping both Sarah and her younger brother, Cody, he drove them to a cemetery where Cody was beaten and left unconscious. Woods then drove away with Sarah and cut her throat. His execution was delayed half an hour to wait for the U.S. Supreme Court to consider an appeal claiming Woods was mentally retarded.
This Week in 2010
“Well, I’d like to say thank you to my family for being here and all my friends, and Boomer Sooner.”
– Jeffery Timothy Landrigan, convicted of murder, lethal injection, Arizona. Executed October 26, 2010.
A native of Oklahoma, Landrigan murdered Chester Dyer in Arizona after escaping from an Oklahoman prison, where he was being held for a 20-year prison sentence for second-degree murder. Landrigan’s execution was temporarily stayed while the Supreme Court investigated the origins of Arizona’s supply of sodium thiopental, a barbiturate used in the state’s lethal injections. “Boomer Sooner” is the University of Oklahoma’s fight song.
This Week in 2010
“No sir. Warden, Since I don’t have nothing to say, you can go ahead and send me to my Heavenly Father.”
– Larry Wooten, convicted of murder, lethal injection, Texas. Executed October 21, 2010.
Wooten stabbed and cut the throats of 80-year-old man, Grady Alexander, and his wife, Bessie. He had previously done odd jobs for the Alexanders and was once married to their niece. The motive for Wooten’s crime was to rob the couple. A cocaine addict, Wooten stole between $500 to $600 in cash after the murders.
