Daryl Mack was executed by the State of Nevada for the murder of Betty May
According to court documents Betty May was found murdered in her home. The woman had been sexually assaulted. The murder went unsolved for twelve years until Daryl Mack was convicted of the murder of Kim Marks and his DNA was collected and it was matched to the murder of Betty May
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Daryl Mack was executed on April 26 2006
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A man convicted of the rape and murder of a Reno woman – a crime he denied committing – was executed by injection late Wednesday at the Nevada State Prison. Daryl Linnie Mack, 47, was the first Nevada convict to be executed based solely on DNA evidence.
“Allah is great, Allah is great,” Mack said before the lethal drugs took effect. Prison officials pronounced him dead at 9:06 p.m.
The execution was the state’s 12th – and the first of a black convict – since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976. Mack was the 11th of those executed to voluntarily give up available appeals.
Mack, who refused to give any interviews while awaiting execution, had said in court statements that he’d rather be executed than spend the rest of his life locked up on death row – even though he claimed he didn’t strangle Betty Jane May, 55, in the Reno boarding house where she lived. Mack was serving a no-parole life term in prison for murdering Kim Parks in 1994 in a Reno motel when he was linked to May’s murder and convicted. A three-judge panel sentenced him to death in 2002.
After Mack was led into the execution chamber and strapped down, he turned with an eerie grin and stared directly at Dan Greco, a chief deputy Washoe County district attorney who oversaw Mack’s prosecution. Mack was executed after dining on a last meal of a fish fillet sandwich, french fries and a soft drink. Mack, who converted to Islam while in prison, also spent time reading the Quran in his final hours.
The execution had been scheduled for late last year but was stayed by the state Supreme Court. The stay was lifted in February when the high court dismissed a petition filed by Viola Mack, the condemned inmate’s mother, who claimed her son didn’t get a fair competency hearing.
Greco said the death penalty was clearly warranted in Mack’s case. Mack was “a perfect example of the worst of the worst,” Greco said.
As Mack sat in prison for killing Parks, the unsolved murder of May languished until a Reno homicide detective reviewing inactive cases noticed there were blood and semen samples that had never been tested. Such DNA tests had not been developed at the time of May’s 1988 slaying. A search of the data base found a match in Mack. “This was an interesting case in that it was the first case where the only evidence was DNA evidence,” Greco said.
May’s children, Charles May, 48, of Reno, Denise Notinelli, 44, of Los Angeles, and Alana Coy, 42, of Kentucky, witnessed Mack’s execution. Charles May said the family wanted to see justice carried out, and the execution was “long overdue.” “Mom couldn’t ask for a better Mother’s Day gift,” May said outside the prison, where he declared justice had been served. “Rest in peace, mom,” he said.
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