Rex Mays was executed by the State of Texas for the murders of Kristin Michelle Wiley, 10, and Kynara Lorin Carreiro, 7.
According to court documents Rex Mays was just fired from his job and drove home when he heard loud music coming from the neighbors. Mays would go into the home and would stab to death Kristin Michelle Wiley, 10, and her friend, Kynara Lorin Carreiro, 7.
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Rex Mays was executed on September 24 2002
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Rex Mays, a Harris county man who stabbed two girls, aged 7 and 10, to death a decade ago was executed Tuesday evening in the death chamber in the Huntsville “Walls” Unit.
Mays, who had worked part-time as “Uh-Oh the Clown” at children’s birthday parties, had said he killed the girls on July 20, 1992 because he was having “a bad day.” Tuesday evening, he refused to acknowledge the presence of the families of Kristin Wiley and Kynara Carreiro, both of whom witnessed the execution.
During his final statement, which came in the form of a prayer, Mays requested “forgiveness for the ones that need to be forgiven.” “Dear Lord, I ask you right now to be with each of (his personal witnesses) and lift them up and be on solid ground,” he said. “I am going to go see Jesus tonight and reserve a special place for each one of you.” “Just remember the good things and not the bad,” he said. Mays gasped and sputtered twice as the lethal dose of drugs took effect at 6:11 p.m. He was pronounced dead eight minutes later.
Mays was the focus of a 19-month investigation by the Harris County Sheriff’s Department after the bodies of the two girls were found in the Wiley home on the afternoon of July 20. Mays had come home early because he had been fired from his job and was upset by loud noise coming from the Wiley house. He entered his neighbor’s house and demanded the girls turn the music down, which they refused to do. “Here I had just gotten fired, and some kid’s telling me no,” he said in his confession.
Mays then grabbed a knife and slit the girls throats, cutting their carotid arteries and causing them to drown in their own blood. He also stabbed them in the eyes to prevent them from looking at him. By the time Mays had finished his gruesome work, he had stabbed Wiley 18 times and Carreiro 23 times.
In a press conference after the execution, Carreiro’s father Bob called Mays’ execution “much, much too easy.” “I asked one time for five minutes in a cell with him, but I was turned down,” he said. Carreiro said he had prepared himself for the possibility that Mays would not express remorse. “I had already decided what he said was irrelevant,” he said. “I had nothing to say to him and I’m sure that he had nothing to say to me. To murder two little girls … what could I have to say that could be relevant?” Carreiro said his wife had decided not to attend the execution but that he had never considered missing it. “I would go to the end of the earth to see this end,” he said. “He was nothing but a child predator. He needed to be removed.” The Wiley family declined to make a statement.
As the families left the “Walls” Unit at 6:47 p.m., about 20 members of the pro-death penalty group Justice For All released 17 pink and two Barbie balloons into the sky. The group far outnumbered the approximately half-dozen anti-death penalty protesters at the opposing end of the unit. “It was a wonderful gesture for the girls,” Carreiro said. “I think the girls would have liked it.”
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