A condemned killer was executed Wednesday night in Huntsville,
Texas, for the 1996 fatal shooting of a man during a car theft.
Frederick McWilliams, 30, was the 22nd prisoner executed this year in
Texas and the second in as many nights. Two more convicts are set for
lethal injection next week. "Well, here we are again folks in the
catacombs of justice," McWilliams said when asked by the warden if he
had a final statement. "There are people that will be mad thinking I
try to seek freedom from this, but as long as I see, freedom belongs to
me and I'll keep on keeping on," he said. "The shackles and chains that
just might hold my body can't hold my mind." McWilliams then told his
mother, who watched through a window a few feet away, a sister and
several friends that he loved them and would never stop. He was
pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m. CST. [more] and [more]
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