Texas Executes Killer, Plans a Record 11 for Month
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Patrick Rogers, who killed a police officer during a 1985 crime spree, was executed by lethal injection Monday in the first of a record 11 executions set for June in Texas.
“I will ask Allah for forgiveness because he created me and he will forgive me,” Rogers said before he was injected with a dose of lethal chemicals shortly after 6 p.m. CDT.
Rogers, 33, and Willis Cooper stole a police car in Oklahoma in September 1985 and drove to north Texas, where they stole guns from a pawn shop and held up an ice cream parlor in Paris. Minutes later, Officer David Roberts pulled the men over, but Rogers shot him through the windshield before he could leave his car. Cooper was sentenced to life in prison for aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.
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