Bobby Ross was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of a police officer
According to court documents Bobby Ross and two accomplices were robbing a motel when they were interrupted by Officer Steve Mahan. The Officer would be disarmed before Ross shot him three times in the head
Bobby Ross would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Bobby Ross would be executed by lethal injection on December 9 1999
Bobby Ross Case
Convicted cop killer Bobby Lynn Ross died Thursday in Oklahoma’s death chamber with his eyes open, saying God had forgiven him and he hoped the victim’s family would too.
The brother of slain Elk City Sgt. Steven Mahan and law officers from western Oklahoma witnessed the execution at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Mahan’s family said their pain remained nearly 17 years after the execution-style murder.
“We pray that Bobby Ross has truly accepted the Lord,” Tony Mahan and his wife, Mary, wrote in a statement prior to the execution. “Perhaps that will ease his family’s pain. I am truly sorry for his family in this difficult time
Ross, 41, was pronounced dead at 12:21 a.m., minutes after a dose of heart-stopping drugs began to flow in the state’s sixth execution this year.
“I’d like to say forgive me to the Mahan family,” Ross said at the start of his lengthy and sometimes indiscernible last statement. “I’m going to ask that you all forgive me as the Lord has forgiven me
He said he understood “the heartache and the tragedy” because he had lost his mother and two other family members while in prison.
He also said he forgave anyone who harbored ill feelings toward him.
“If I do not forgive, neither will my Father in heaven forgive me,” he said before ending his statement with a simple “Thank you.”
Ross, wearing black frame glasses, stared at the ceiling as the drugs began to flow.
He licked his lips several times, took a few deep breaths, coughed, made a snoring-like sound and died, never having closed his eyes.
Attorney General Drew Edmondson said Wednesday that the execution was important to “the entire law enforcement community.”
Mahan was shot “execution style with bullets to the head when he was disarmed and powerless to intervene,” Edmondson said.
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