Texecution Tonight: Innocent But in a Hurry to Die
Dennis Wayne Bagwell is scheduled to be executed tonight in Texas. He maintains his innocence. But he says he wants to die.
"My hope is: Hurry up and go through," Bagwell told the Associated Press Wednesday from a small visiting cage outside death row. "I've been waiting for this for over a year now." While maintaining his innocence and crediting his appeals attorneys for caring and trying to save him, "I'm just ready to get it over with," he said.
"If they offered me a life sentence, I wouldn't take it. I'm not walking through these hallways as an 80- or 90-year-old for something I didn't do."
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