Two executions in the United States last week.
On Tuesday May 3rd, Texas executed Carry Kerr (46). It was the state's first execution using a new three-drug cocktail, using pentobarbital instead of sodium thiopental. Kerr was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 34-year old woman in 2001. In his last statement, he proclaimed his innocence before asking his friends to find the person he claimed committed the crime, saying: "Check that DNA. Check Scott."
Kerr is the 3rd inmate to be executed in Texas this year, and the 467th in the state since they resumed executions in 1982.
On Friday May 6th, South Carolina executed Jeffrey Motts (36). Mott's execution also used the sedative pentobarbital in the place of sodium thiopental. He was sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of his cellmate at a state prison in Greenville County, where he was serving a life sentence for killing 2 elderly people during a robbery in 1995. Motts abandoned his appeals and volunteered for the death chamber. In a final statement read by his attorney before he died, Motts apologized to the victims' families, his own families, and anyone he hurt along the way. In his last statement, he also mentioned his drug addiction, saying he wanted to warn kids of the dangers of drugs.
Motts is the 1st inmate to be executed in South Carolina this year.
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