Tommy Lynn Sells, a serial killer who claimed to have murdered 70 people, was put to death by Texas on Thursday evening
The Fifth Circuit revived the death penalty by quickly overturning Judge Vanessa Gilmore’s ruling that the executions of killers Tommy Lynn Sells and Ramiro Hernandez-Llanas be delayed because the State of Texas refused to reveal the identity of the compounding pharmacy which had supplied the pentobarbital for their execution. The Supreme Court also turned back a last second appeal of the Fifth Circuit’s decision.
On Thursday evening Texas executed Sells for the 1999 murder of 13-year-old Kaylene 'Katy' Harris in Del Rio, Texas. He had stabbed the little girl 16 times. He also slid the throat of her friend, 10-year-old Krystal Surles, but she survived and helped identify him as their attacker.
Sells is suspected in the murders of 22 people around the nation.
Wikipedia lists the following murders Sells is known to have committed:
The July 1985 murder of Ena Cordt and her 4-year-old son in Missouri
The murder of Suzanne Korcz in New York during May 1987
The November 1987 murder of the Dardeen family in Illinois
The murder of 11-year-old Melissa Tremblay in Lawrence, Massachusetts in September 1988
The murder of 13-year-old Stephanie Mahaney near Springfield, Missouri in 1997
Killing a co-worker in Texas during April 1998
The murder of 13-year-old Katy Harris in Texas in 1999
The 1999 sexual assault and murder of 13-year-old Haley McHone in Lexington, KY
After his trial for the murder of Katy Harris, Sells pled guilty in a San Antonio court to the strangulation murder of Mary Beatrice Perez, a little 9-year-old girl he abducted in 1999.
Sells has bragged about killing up to 70 people. Nonetheless, Judge Gilmore was concerned that this sorry ass piece of shit might suffer some discomfort from a possible substandard batch of pentobarbital put together by a compounding pharmacy. God perish the thought.
During his execution, Sells went to his death sleeping like a baby. Too bad he did not experience the discomfort his attorneys claimed he might suffer.
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