James Robedeaux was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of Nancy Rose Lee McKinney
According to court documents James Robedeaux was on parole for the murder of his first wife when he would murder Nancy Rose Lee McKinney. Police would find blood stains on the floor of her apartment however her body was nowhere to be found. Over the coming months parts of Nancy McKinney body would be found. James attempted to murder his second wife a month after the Nancy McKinney murder
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James Robedeaux would be executed by lethal injection on June 1 2000
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James Robedeaux was executed on June 1 2000
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Moments before James Glenn Robedeaux was executed for murdering his girlfriend, he asked forgiveness from her family — even telling them he loved them. But the daughter of victim Nancy McKinney said she didn’t care what Robedeaux had to say. Tammy McKinney said she only wishes Robedeaux would have suffered more. “I think he had an easy death. He went to sleep. That’s not comparable to what he did to my mother,” McKinney said after watching Robedeaux’s execution with 13 of her family members. Robedeaux, 51, was pronounced dead at 12:24 a.m. today after receiving a dose of drugs at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.
Body parts dumped in stream
He was convicted of murdering Nancy McKinney on Sept. 22, 1985. He then dismembered her and dumped her body parts in a stream. Strapped down with tubes going into his arms, Robedeaux told his father he loved him and asked him to pass the same message on “to sister and to my kids.” His father, watching from an adjacent room, gave Robedeaux a thumbs up. Robedeaux asked forgiveness from the McKinneys before again turning his attention to his father. “God bless you all. Don’t worry about me. I’m going to be all right,” he said.
‘I didn’t believe his apologies’ With that, Robedeaux nodded to the prison official standing over him and closed his eyes tight. He would not open them again, quickly falling silent after a gasp and quick cough. The execution was too quick and easy, said Sean Liggons, Nancy McKinney’s son. “I wish it could have been more painful. I didn’t believe his apologies or nothing. I just wanted him to rot in hell,” Liggons said. At least one member of Nancy McKinney’s family — her brother E.J. McKinney — said he has forgiven Robedeaux. “I was just praying in my spirit that the words he was saying were true, because where he is now there are no appeals,” he said.
Murderer had killed before When Nancy McKinney met Robedeaux in the summer of 1985, he had just been released from prison and was on probation for strangling his wife in March 1978. Robedeaux had served just seven years of a 25-year sentence after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. McKinney and Robedeaux began living together — against the wishes of some of McKinney’s relatives. Her sister, Donna Pittsen, said she only met Robedeaux once and felt the “presence of evil” in him immediately. While they were together, McKinney stopped showing up for work at a hospital and was fired. Her four children, whom Robedeaux was suspected of abusing, were taken away by the state. In August 1985, Robedeaux and McKinney moved into an Oklahoma City apartment that a month later would stink with the smell of McKinney’s blood. By December, her body parts began showing up in creeks in a three-county area.
The stench of blood About a week after the murder, McKinney’s mother, Carmen McKinney, visited the apartment, finding a rented rug cleaner but no trace of her daughter. When police investigated the apartment in October, they found bloodstains that had soaked through the apartment’s shag carpeting as well as a stench that Robedeaux said was from spoiled meat. Carmen McKinney said the only remains of her daughter are ashes held by various members of the McKinney family. She said the family plans to hold several ceremonies and sprinkle some of her ashes in a place where her daughter used to spend time with her children. She said the family also plans to put a gravestone for McKinney near Pawnee.
Robedeaux is the seventh inmate executed in Oklahoma this year, with three more executions upcoming. Robert James Berget is scheduled to die June 8, William Clifford Bryson on June 15 and Gregg Francis Braun on July 20.
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