Raymond Kinnamon was executed by State of Texas for a murder committed during a robbery
According to court documents Raymond Kinnamon would enter a bar and with a gun demanded money from the staff and customers. When one of the customers would balk at his request he would open fire killing the man
Raymond Kinnamon would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Raymond Kinnamon would be executed by lethal injection on December 11 1994
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Raymond Kinnamon was executed on December 11 1994
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Raymond Carl Kinnamon fought his executioners until the very end.
″I want everybody to know I’m not ready to go,″ he said shortly before dawn Sunday.
He tried to prove it, with a 30-minute filibuster in an apparent attempt to talk his way past the dawn execution deadline set in his death warrant.
Then he tried to escape from leather restraints that kept him connected to two intravenous tubes already positioned to deliver a solution of lethal drugs.
The 53-year-old career criminal was executed for a killing during a $1,500 bar robbery in Houston exactly 10 years earlier. The execution followed a frenzy of legal wrangling through the night that ended with the U.S. Supreme Court rejecting an appeal.
″I’ve got a few things to say,″ Kinnamon announced as witnesses filed into the death chamber about 5:15 a.m.
He was still talking 30 minutes later, after thanking dozens of people, criticizing capital punishment, expressing love for his family and getting a drink of water from the prison warden.
It was not clear what would have happened if Kinnamon had continued speaking past the sunrise deadline.
″I just wish I had a Shakespearean vocabulary and maybe I could express myself better,″ he said in the midst of his monologue.
″I can see no reason for my death,″ he said before beginning to squirm, lifting his head and shoulders and trying to slide his right arm out of a leather strap.
Soon after, the drugs were sent through the tubes. Kinnamon’s niece, standing with her mother and a friend behind a window on the chamber, began sobbing loudly.
″They didn’t let him finish,″ Natasha Fremin cried out. ″I didn’t get to say goodbye.″
Kinnamon was pronounced dead 11 minutes later, his body somewhat contorted because of his efforts to free himself.
Kinnamon was the 14th Texas inmate put to death this year and the second in a week. He was the 257th U.S. inmate to be executed since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed states to resume using the death penalty.