Gilbert Ray Postelle was executed Thursday morning for his function in a 2005 quadruple homicide at an Oklahoma Metropolis trailer park.
For his final meal, Postelle ate 20 hen nuggets with varied sauces, fries, a crispy hen sandwich, one hen sandwich, a big cola and one caramel frappe. The meal was roughly 3,872 energy.
Postelle died by deadly injection in Oklahoma at 10.14am, in keeping with a DOC spokesman, Justin Wolf.
On Memorial Day in 2005, Postelle killed 4 folks in what he claimed was a connection to his father’s motorbike accident that left him badly injured. He reportedly used an AK-47 stifle rifle when he killed James Alderson, 57, Terry Smith, 56, Donnie Swindle, 49 and Amy Wright, 26.
He was 19-years-old on the time of the slayings, however in December of final 12 months he claimed he didn’t bear in mind the murders due to his methamphetamine use across the time of the assault, in keeping with The Solar.
‘I do perceive that I’m responsible and I settle for that,’ Postselle testified. ‘There’s nothing extra that I do know to say to you all than I'm actually sorry for what I’ve performed to all these households.
The execution is the state’s fourth since October, and comes simply over per week earlier than a federal trial is about to start out in a lawsuit accusing Oklahoma of utilizing unconstitutionally merciless deadly injection medicine throughout executions.
Postelle was a plaintiff in that lawsuit.
Oklahoma beforehand had a six-year moratorium on executions after a sequence of botched killings, however introduced again the follow final 12 months.
These in opposition to the demise penalty condemned the execution, and argued the state shouldn’t have killed Postelle. The 35-year-old reportedly had a studying incapacity with an IQ within the ow 70s, and dropped out of public faculty the place he was a particular schooling pupil on the age of 12.
As a toddler, Postelle was additionally deserted by his mom and commenced abusing methamphetamine day by day as a teen.
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