Vietnam veteran Herbert Lee Richardson, who claimed he suffered from post-war stress and Agent Orange exposure, went calmly to his death in the Alabama electric chair early Friday for the pipe-bomb killing of an 11-year-old girl.
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"I have no ill feelings and hold nothing against anyone," Richardson, 43, said after he was strapped into the electric chair at Holman Prison around 11 p.m. MDT. He was pronounced dead after one jolt of electricity.Last month it took two jolts of electricity to kill Horace Franklin Dunkins after the electric chair, dubbed "Yellow Mama" by inmates because of its garish color, was incorrectly wired.