Facing death can’t be an easy thing. Imagine being on death row for years.
You know that at some point, your time will run out and you will be put to death.
Most people on death row don’t get much sympathy from their victims. Some inmates don’t even show any remorse for their crimes.
Being remorseful doesn’t undo the wrong – but it may give the families some closure or satisfaction.
But Kenneth Williams, 38, an Arkansas death row inmate was remorseful in his final words to his daughter.
Williams was in prison serving a life sentence for murdering Dominique Hurd in 1998.
He escaped from prison and killed Cecil Boren – which upgraded his charges to capital murder.
On April 27, Williams was put to death by lethal injection as his daughter, Jodie Efird, watched.
Williams told his daughter that he was more than wrong and that his crime was senseless.
Williams was put to death in the same prison he had escaped from.
Seven other prisoners were also executed that same month at that prison, and they were the last group of inmates to be killed before the State ran out of sedative.
Suppliers are not willing to have their products used for executions and some states are having a hard time purchasing lethal injection drugs.
All of the inmates, including Williams, had been fighting their death sentences based on the facts that the sedative used, midazolam, doesn’t stop a painful death.
The Arkansas Supreme Court denied the claim and the sentences were carried out.
Witnesses at William’s execution said he did not appear to be in any pain.
