Dennis Bagwell was execute by the State of Texas for four murders
According to court documents Dennis Bagwell would ask his mother for money and soon after he would go on a rampage that would see four people dead including his mother as well as the sexual assault of a fourteen year old girl: Leona McBee, 47; her niece, Libby Best, 24; Best’s daughter, Reba, 4; and Tassy Boone, 14, the granddaughter of McBee’s common-law husband, Ron Boone
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Convicted murderer Dennis Wayne Bagwell was executed Thursday evening for the slayings of his mother and three others in a bloody spree almost 10 years ago near San Antonio. Bagwell did not acknowledge the four relatives of his victims, but he thanked a spiritual adviser for being there. “I love you all,” he told people he had invited to watch him die. As the drugs began taking effect, he gasped a couple of times and was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m., seven minutes later.
Bagwell, 41, denied involvement in the massacre of his mother, Leona McBee, 47; her niece, Libby Best, 24; Best’s daughter, Reba, 4; and Tassy Boone, 14, the granddaughter of McBee’s common-law husband, Ron Boone. All were slain at a mobile home in a rural area of Wilson County near Stockdale, about 35 miles southeast of San Antonio.
Prosecutors described Bagwell at his trial as a “natural-born killer.” The former meat salesman was born in Denver and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley and the Dallas area. He was on parole at the time of the quadruple slayings, serving 13 years of an 18-year sentence for attempted capital murder in Hidalgo County for slitting the throat of an illegal immigrant.
Bagwell also was convicted of another slaying that occurred two weeks before the Wilson County killings. In that case, he received a life prison term for stomping to death a janitor at a Seguin bar.
The lethal injection was the third this year in Texas, the nation’s most active capital punishment state. At least 10 other inmates have execution dates in the next three months. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a stay for defense lawyers, who argued Bagwell was improperly denied his right to testify at his capital murder trial. In an interview Wednesday, Bagwell said he was grateful for the 11th-hour efforts but would welcome death. “I’m at peace with it,” he said. “I’m ready to go. I’m tired of living in a cage like an animal.”
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