Execution preceded by tirade: Man directs obscenity-laced language at his former wife
The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for 12 years for something I did not do. From God's dust I came and to dust I will return so the Earth shall become my throne. I gotta go, Road Dog.
- Cameron Willingham
Man, you'd think that if you were about to be executed, you'd just sit down, let them strap you in, and you'd go out without so much as a whimper,right?. Well, not if you're Cameron Willingham, who apparently never managed to work out those nagging anger management issues.
HUNTSVILLE -- Spewing profanities at his ex-wife standing a few feet away, an angry former auto mechanic was executed Tuesday evening for the deaths of his three young children in a fire at their home two days before Christmas 12 years ago....
He expressed love to someone named Gabby and then addressed his ex-wife, Stacy Kuykendall, who was watching about 8 feet away through a window.
He told her repeatedly in obscenity-laced language that he hoped she would "rot in hell" and attempted to maneuver his hand, strapped at the wrist, into an obscene gesture....
Willingham previously acknowledged he was a lousy husband but insisted he wasn't responsible for the blaze in Corsicana that killed his daughters -- 2-year-old Amber and 1-year-old twins Karmon and Kameron.
Contrition is generally a good thing, but I guess some folks just prefer to go out with a bang, eh? If y'all will allow me to hazard a guess here, I'm thinking Monsieur Willingham might not be such a good choice as the poster boy for the anti-death penalty movement.
