Meet the death row inmates that cried, screamed, and hysterically pleaded during the last few minutes as he was being executed
It happening in the United States during the controversial 2000 execution of convicted murderer Gary Graham by the state of Texas. This occurred while George W. Bush was still Governor of Texas, and running for President in a closely-contested electoral campaign, in which he narrowly defeated Al Gore that November. Graham had been convicted of the murder of a 53-year-old man based on the eyewitness account of one person, and the account of this witness was called into question by others. However, he had unquestionably been on a crime spree at the time, in which he had committed 20 armed robberies, three kidnappings, a rape, and had fired his gun toward at least three other people. He may or may not have committed the murder—but he was clearly a dangerous person, and this may have kept him from getting a fair re-hearing on whether or not he was the one who committed the murder. Many people were arguing that he deserved to die just for all of the other crimes he had committed....