Convicted murderer Ronald "Rusty" Woomer, who killed four people during a 1979 crime spree along the South Carolina coast, was executed early Friday in the state's electric chair.
Woomer, 35, of Huntington, W.Va., closed his eyes and clenched his fists as he was strapped into the electric chair at the Broad River Correctional Center. He was pronounced dead at 1:12 a.m. EDT.His final words included a statement of his religious faith and a simple apology to the families of his victims.
The execution was witnessed by Don Sellers, whose wife, Della, was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Woomer and an accomplice. Sellers said he promised his wife before she died that he would see justice done and her killer executed.