An inmate was executed by injection Tuesday for raping and murdering a nun when he was 17.

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"I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my a--," Johnny Frank Garrett, 28, said in his final statement.Garrett was convicted in the 1981 slaying Sister Tadea Benz, a 76-year-old Roman Catholic nun, at a convent in Amarillo.

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