A confessed murderer was put to death Friday by lethal ejection for the slayings of two men he thought were homosexuals.
Sean Patrick Flanagan, 28, had refused to seek appeals of his death sentence for the 1987 killings in Las Vegas. One of his victims was dismembered.After he was strapped to a gurney at the Nevada State Prison, Flanagan lifted his head and told the man who prosecuted him, "I love you." He was declared dead at 2:09 a.m.
Flanagan was the fourth person put to death in Nevada and the 114th nationally since the 1976 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to resume use of the death penalty. He was the second person executed this week in Nevada.