MURDERER FORGIVES SOCIETY, DIES
In Huntsville, Texas, convicted murderer Charles Rumbaugh forgave society, laughed, then was executed by injection after ten and a half years on death row. Rumbaugh who was 28 committed his first crime when he was 6 and was sentenced to die at the age of 17 for killing a jeweler during a $54 robbery He did not try to evade his execution, saying, “I don’t care anymore. I’m bored.” At his request, Rumbaugh’s death was witnessed by D.J. Stubben, an Amarillo author who helped him write a book about his life, Laurie Vestal, a Waupaca, Wisconsin housewife who began corresponding with him 21 months prior, and George Wheat, a prison psychologist. The tragedy of sin is multiplied without repentance. Adapted from a UPI report
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