Killer Who Cited Metallica's 'No Remorse' Lyrics Executed
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A Texas death row inmate who chanted the chorus to METALLICA's "No Remorse" after fatally shooting a man in the head in Corpus Christi and robbing him of $13 twenty years ago was executed Tuesday (Jan. 25), according to The Associated Press.
The execution came after the U.S. Supreme Court refused on a narrow 5-4 vote to block Troy Kunkle's execution.
Kunkle was contrite as he looked toward the daughter and son-in-law of his victim, Stephen Horton, and sought their forgiveness.
"I would like to ask you to forgive me," he said. "I made a mistake and I am sorry for what I did. All I can do is ask you to forgive me."
Kunkle then turned his head toward an adjacent window in the death house and expressed love to witnesses he selected to watch him die, including his mother and his wife.
"I love you and I will see all of you in heaven," he said. "I love you very much. Praise Jesus."
Kunkle recited the Lord's Prayer and then indicated to the warden he had finished. In the seconds before the lethal drugs began taking effect, he repeatedly mouthed "I love you" to his friends and relatives. He exhaled slightly and gasped before he slipped into unconsciousness. Eight minutes later, at 8:12 p.m. CST, he was pronounced dead.
"Shame to Texas," his wife, Christa Heber, said as she watched him die.
Kunkle, 38, spent more than half of his life on death row for the death of Horton, 31, who was fatally shot and robbed of $13. Twice last year, Kunkle was spared from the Texas death chamber by court rulings on the day he was scheduled to die. The most recent halt came Nov. 18, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the execution about 40 minutes after Kunkle could have been strapped to the death chamber gurney for injection.
The 1984 shooting gained notoriety with disclosures that Kunkle quoted lyrics from METALLICA's song "No Remorse", from the album "Kill 'em All" ("Another day, another death, another sorrow, another breath") after Horton was gunned down. Prosecutors also remembered him at one point during his trial playing an air guitar in the courtroom as lawyers discussed whether the METALLICA song could be admitted into evidence.
Source: Blackmetal.com
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25 Comments on "Killer Who Cited Metallica Lyrics Executed"
5. writes:
I think so, I know they electricuted a couple guys last year, but I don't know what the state is doing with them now.
And besides, the convict has an option and so does the jury.
For example, when Scott Peterson was sentenced to death, it's by lethal injection. Depends what the jury recommends also(but only in certain states.)
6. writes:
It's a damn shame when someone has to be put down like a rabid dog , but to kill someone over $13.00 unfortunately in my opinion qualifies as rabid . I lost a close friend to drug addiction recently this was followed by him being murderd by his own cousine over $5.00 . This is the kind of sh** that makes you lose faith in you're fellow man .
9. writes:
HOLY SH*******************************T. ANOTHER TURD FOUND FLOATING IN SOCIETIES TOILET. I AM WORN OUT FROM BEATING STUPID SH*TS LIKE FU*KO DOWN TO THE BLOODY PULP THEY DESERVE TO BE. THANK GOD THAT WE HAVE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO WEED OUT THE SLIME FROM HUMAN EXISTANCE. DUDE, YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR ANYONE POSTING SOME STUPID SH*T LIKE THAT. YOUR PARENTS DIDN'T RAISE YOU RIGHT, THATS THE PROBLEM. IF YOU LIKE AL QUAEDA SO MUCH, GRAB THE SH*T STREAKED TOWELL YOU WRAP YOUR TINY UNINTELLIGENT HEAD IN AND TAKE YOUR a$$ OVER TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE I'M SURE SOME GOOD OL BOY FROM TEXAS SERVING IN OUR ARMED FORCES OVER THERE WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BLOW YOUR FU*KING ANTI-AMERICAN HEAD OFF AND SH*T DOWN YOUR NECK, YOU FU*KING CU*T. NOW BACK TO THE POINT, I ONLY REGRET THAT TEXAS TOOK SO LONG TO TAKE THAT STUPID a$$ OUT, ALL THE MEALS THEY HAD TO FEED THAT WASTE OF SPACE COULD HAVE FED PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY NEEDED THE FOOD, NOT TO MENTION THAT THE TAXPAYERS WERE THE ONES BUYING THE FOOD AND PROVIDING THE ROOF OVER THAT FU*KERS HEAD FOR TWENTY YEARS. FU*K NATHAN GALE, FU*K NATHAN GALES MOTHER FOR BUYING HIM THE GUN, FU*K TROY KUNKLE, f*** TROY KUNKLE'S WIFE FOR MOUTHING OFF, AND MOST OF ALL FU*K YOU, FU*KO. HIMMM!!!!
11. writes:
Alot of people complaine about thing's the U.S. does and alot of people complaine about the way it's own citizens are treated if not flat out ignored . I personally am far from a big fan of the way the government seem's to silently condone racism in all of it's many forms (let's face it the kkk , neo nazis and millitia's would'nt exist) Ignore the homeless and treat hiv/aids as if it's no problem until it hit's home . However I realize that their are not many other places in the world wheir someone like me can go and live like I do . This is a huge fact that a certaine somebody is not taking into account . You probably have never been to a 3rd world country and seen how people who are dirt poor really live . America has this romantic thing about living on the beach and bathing in the ocean . However when you see how poor these people are and realize they don't really have a choice then take into account that their are Sharks , Jelly Fish , Sting ray , Sea urchin and lot's of other thing's that could all too easily END YOUR LIFE !!!! Suddenly the thrill is gone . So if you hate the U.S. that much leave . I promise You'll be begging to come back within your 1st six month's .
12. writes:
i'm not willing to sacrifice myself to kill all of u a$$holes, but i'd sure as hell admire sum1 devoted enough to do it. if a spiritually enlightenened person can bare the consequences why not; it's a free country right? so that's my opinion, so suck my c***! - as long as my house is right I don't give a sh** if the rest of this country gets totally f***ed up. and yes - texas needs an assault by a fleet of those new A380 somethin' bigass planes, not the p***y 747s that tickled the trade center hehe. this f***in country needs a proper crisis so every f***er suffers.
& I hate computers
17. writes:
some kind of garbage just got released here today ( the country where i live ) but I dont think I will be buying it because basically it looks like a pile of sh** just like st. anger was. To James and Co. go back a few years and find out where the metallica train derailed and fix the track and get back to basics instead of this oh baby look at my stetson B.S.
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1. me writes:
f*** the loss of mr. kunkle