A Texas death row inmate who brutally murdered two
women was executed on September 4, 2019, but not before rambling about the
“system” and partially describing his own end, according to the New York Post.
Billy Crutsinger, who fatally stabbed 89-year-old
Pearl Magouirk and her 71-year-old daughter Patricia Syren in 2003, was given a
lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced
dead just before 7 p.m.
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However, the 64-year-old Crutsinger did not go
quietly, giving a disjointed four-minute statement before his death.
“I am going to miss those pancakes and those old time
black and white shows. Where I am going everything will be in color,” he
said, according to the Texas Tribune.
“There is a lot of this I don’t understand but the
system is not completely right,” he continued. "It’s not completely wrong
but, it is something that has to be done until something better comes along.”
Crutsinger also said, “I’m at peace now and ready to
go and be with Jesus and my family,” and thanked three friends who attended the
execution. He did not mention the two women he killed during his final
statement, and family members of the murder victims were not present.
As he was given the deadly dose of pentobarbital,
Crutsinger said he could feel it “in my left arm. It’s kind of burning.” He coughed
and breathed heavily and made repeated snoring noises before he stopped moving,
according to The Associated Press.
Crutsinger killed the women after entering their Fort
Worth home under the pretense of doing work for them. He stole Syren’s car and
credit card, and was arrested three days later at a bar in Galveston.
“The defendant
stabbed two elderly women to death in their own home,” prosecutor Michele
Hartmann said in a statement. “They had offered him a chance at honest work.
The loss of mother and daughter Pearl Magouirk and Pat Syren is still felt
deeply by their family and the Fort Worth community. Our sympathy and thoughts
continue to be with them.”
The Supreme Court declined a request by Crutsinger’s
lawyer, Lydia Brandt, to stop the execution. Brandt claimed his previous lawyer
had a long history of incompetent work in death penalty cases.
“The jury heard
nothing from the defense that provided an explanation about the disease of
alcoholism in relation to the offense conduct,” including such things as “a
history of domestic violence and abuse, and repeated losses of significant
friends and relatives,” Brandt wrote in her one of her Supreme Court petitions.
Crutsinger was the 14th inmate put to death this year
in the U.S. and the fifth in Texas. Ten more executions are on tap in Texas
this year.
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