From the International Herald Tribune:
HUNTSVILLE, Texas: A man convicted of murdering three people during a night of robberies more than 13 years ago in Fort Worth was put to death Wednesday evening in the nation’s first execution of the year.
In a brief, final statement, Curtis Moore, 40, thanked a woman who administers to the spiritual needs of death row inmates.
“I want to thank you for all the beautiful years of friendship and ministry,” Moore told Irene Wilcox as she watched through a window a few feet (meters) from him. Moore never acknowledged a man who survived his attacks or five relatives of the three who died.
He was pronounced dead eight minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing.
