Tennessee executed its third inmate in the electric chair since November, killing a man Thursday who maintained that he didn't stab a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986.
State officials pronounced 56-year-old Stephen West dead at 7:27 pm at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
For his final words, West said, "In the beginning, God created man." Then he started to cry and continued, "And Jesus wept. That is all."
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