Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Texas Executes #16: Terry Lee Hankins

An Arlington murderer, Terry Lee Hankins, who murdered 5, including his dad, Earnie Lee Hankins and half sister, Pearl Sevenstar, got the lethal needle last night in the Texas Death Chamber in Huntsville for the murders of his two step-children, Kevin Galley, 12 and Ashley Mason, 11. Hankins also murdered the step-children's mother, Tammy Hankins.

Hankins did not testify at his trial or sentencing hearing or have any last words. Police did find a note at the time of his arrest, written on a bank envelope, saying, "I guess to sum it all up, I'm guilty of murder, incest, hatred, fraud, theft, jealousy, envy."

Hankins was the 16th person to get the lethal needle in Texas this year. This execution was the 200th during Texas Governor Rick Perry's time in office.

200 is a number larger than all the executions that have taken place in all the other American states during Rick Perry's tenure as the governor of Texas.

2 comments:

  1. It's hard to understand why people all over the world would protest the execution of a monster like Terry Hankins. Look at all the death he caused, and thenlet him live? I think not.

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