A man who terrorized a couple, raped their pregnant teenage daughter and killed her 12-year-old mentally handicapped sister by slashing her throat was executed by injection early Wednesday.
"They can take my body, but they can't take the love of the one person I've found," Andrew Six said, without elaborating, in a final statement.In Virginia, a man convicted of robbing and killing a woman three months after being paroled for assault was executed by injection Tuesday evening.
Six, 32, a high school dropout from Pershing, Iowa, was convicted along with his uncle, Donald Petary, of killing 12-year-old Kathy Allen after terrorizing her family at their Ottumwa, Iowa, trailer in April 1987.
Six admitted that he and Petary robbed and terrorized Donald and Janet Allen and their daughters after showing up at their trailer home saying they wanted to look at a pickup truck for sale.
At the Greensville Correctional Center about 45 miles south of Richmond, Va., 35-year-old Carlton Jerome Pope spent a few hours with his mother and sister before his execution.
He was convicted of capital murder in 1986 for shooting Cynthia Gray of Portsmouth and stealing her purse.