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| Oklahoma Man Who Killed Elderly Couple Executed |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 08/05/2003 |
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An Oklahoma man who beat and stabbed an elderly couple to death during a 1999 robbery was executed by lethal injection July 29. Harold McElmurry III, 33, was the fifth person put to death this month in Oklahoma and the 14th this year. He was executed for the murder of wheelchair-bound Robert Pendley, 80, and his wife, Rosa, 75, at their residence in Leanna, Oklahoma. McElmurry told police he stabbed the couple with scissors, then beat them with a hoe. He and wife, Vickie, then took the couple's car and fled to Mexico. They were arrested when they tried to cross the border back into the United States. Vickie McElmurry is serving a sentence of life without parole. McElmurry's last words, uttered while he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber at the state prison in McAlester, were, 'I'd like to say I'm sorry to the Pendleys. I hope they can forgive me,' according to prison spokesman Jerry Massie. For his last meal, McElmurry requested Canadian bacon pizza, a pint of chicken livers, cottage cheese and one raw white onion. |
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