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June 21, 2014
Florida executed tonight a convicted killer who fatally stabbed his wife and her young son in 1985.
It is the third U.S. execution in less than 24 hours since a botched April lethal injection in Oklahoma.
The governor’s office says John Ruthell Henry, 63, was pronounced dead at 7.43pm Wednesday.
The inmate was convicted and sentenced to death for fatally stabbing his wife, 29-year-old Suzanne Henry, a few days before Christmas outside Plant City, Florida.
A detective testified at his trial in 1987 that Henry stabbed Suzanne in the neck with a five-inch paring knife and then watched her die while smoking a cigarette, reported Tampa Bay Times.
He also was found guilty of murdering his 5-year-old stepson, Eugene Christian, hours after the woman’s murder.
The toddler was stabbed in the throat five times.
Henry previously had pleaded no contest to second-degree murder for stabbing his common-law wife, Patricia Roddy, in 1976 in front of her children, one of whom begged him to stop hurting the woman. He served less than eight years and was released in 1983.
Suzanne Henry’s relatives told reporters she hadn’t known about John Henry’s previous killing when she married him after his release.
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a last-second appeal by attorneys who argued Henry wasn’t mentally stable enough to comprehend his death sentence.
Just before his execution, Henry asked for forgiveness and apologized for what he’d done.
‘I can’t undo what I’ve done. If I could, I would. I ask for your forgiveness if you can find it in your heart,’ he said.
The state claims anyone with an IQ of at least 70 is not mentally disabled; testing has shown Henry’s IQ at 78, though his lawyers said it should be re-evaluated.
