Jessie Patrick was executed by the State of South Carolina for the murder of Nina Rutherford Redd
According to court documents Jessie Patrick would break into the home of eighty year old Nina Rutherford Redd who would be sexually assaulted and had her throat slashed. Patrick would steal a number of items from the home before fleeing
Jessie Patrick would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jessie Patrick would be executed by lethal injection on September 17 2002
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Jessie Patrick was executed on September 17 2002
Jessie Patrick Case
A convict with a history of assaults was executed Tuesday for raping and fatally beating and slashing an 80-year-old Dallas woman during an attack at her home more than 13 years ago. Jessie Joe Patrick already was on parole when evidence showed he crawled through a window and killed Nina Rutherford Redd, who lived alone a few houses away from him. Patrick, 44, was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m., seven minutes after the lethal dose began.
He declined to make a final statement, but smiled and nodded to his wife, brother and relatives as they entered the chamber. As he gasped and sputtered when the drugs began taking effect, his wife, Hester Patrick, began wailing, and at one point she cried out “Bastards!” Patrick’s attorneys filed last-ditch appeals in the federal courts to try to block the punishment.
Police questioning neighbors about the killing began suspecting Patrick when his girlfriend said the distinctive wood-handled and square-tipped butcher knife found lying next to Redd’s body appeared to be his. Detectives found Patrick’s palm print outside the victim’s bathroom window sill. A sock in a trash can at Patrick’s home was stained with blood that matched the victim. A dentist testified a bite mark on the slain woman’s wrist matched Patrick’s dental impression. Hairs at the slaying scene matched Patrick’s hair.
Jurors deliberated about 50 minutes before convicting him of the slaying. It took the same jury less than 45 minutes to decide on the death sentence after three women testified Patrick either had assaulted or raped them in a drunken rage.
Patrick was the 25th Texas inmate put to death this year and the first of two on consecutive evenings this week.