Robert Morrow was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Lisa Allison (Myra Elisabeth Allison)
According to court documents Robert Morrow would abduct Lisa Allison. The college student body would be found in the Trinity River. The woman had been badly beaten and her throat was slashed. DNA found in Robert Morrow belonged to Lisa
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Robert Morrow would be executed by lethal injection on November 4 2004
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Robert Morrow was executed on November 4 2004
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Apologetic killer Robert Brice Morrow was executed Thursday for the fatal beating and slashing of a 21-year-old Nevada college student who was abducted while home in Texas on spring break.
In a last statement, Morrow addressed the parents of his victim by name and told them, “I would like to tell you that I am responsible, and I am sorry for what I did and the pain I caused.” He expressed love to his friends and said he had been blessed that they stood by him. Morrow urged them to stay strong. “Set me free, warden,” he said. “Father, accept me.”
As he waited for the lethal drugs to take effect, he turned again, looking through a window at his victim’s relatives and added, “I do hope my death brings you all some closure.” Then he blurted out, “I feel it” and gasped slightly three times. He was pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. CST, eight minutes after the drugs began flowing.
The execution was delayed briefly as prison officials had difficulty finding suitable veins in the former drug user’s arms. Instead they selected veins at the top of each hand for the needles.
Morrow, 47, a former oilfield roughneck with a criminal record in at least three states, was condemned for the 1996 slaying of Lisa Allison, who was taken from a carwash near her home in Liberty, about 45 miles east of Houston. Her body was found the next day in the Trinity River. Authorities determined she had suffered 42 injuries. Morrow was the 20th Texas inmate executed this year and the second this week. No last-day appeals were filed to try to block the punishment. The U.S. Supreme Court two weeks ago refused to review his case.
The woman’s father, Michael Allison, said earlier he’d like to tell Morrow: “We’re glad you’re going to be off this Earth. We think the world will be a better and safer place with you gone.” His daughter had cheated death once, getting a clean bill of health months earlier after surviving thyroid cancer. She was looking forward to a hotel-management career after graduation from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
A witness told authorities he saw a man fitting Morrow’s description lying on top of Allison in the passenger side of a car at the carwash. She didn’t appear to be struggling, and he dismissed the activity as nothing more than boyfriend and girlfriend, then saw them drive toward the river.
The car later was found abandoned. Morrow, who had previous convictions for burglary, weapons possession and larceny in South Carolina, Louisiana and Texas, was arrested nearly four months later walking near a crack house in Houston. A computer check revealed he was wanted for the slaying.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2885454