Asked if he had a final statement before his execution, convicted killer Kenneth Allen McDuff said: "I'm ready to be released. Release me."
McDuff, 52, was executed by injection Tuesday night, three decades after his first victims were slain. He was suspected of killing as many as 14 people, all in Texas."He's going where he needs to go," said Brenda Solomon, the mother of Melissa Ann Northrup, whom McDuff was convicted of killing six years ago. "He looked like the devil."
McDuff is thought to be the only person ever freed from death row and then returned after killing again.
He was sentenced to die for fatally shooting two teenage boys in Fort Worth in 1966 and raping and strangling their 16-year-old female companion. His sentence was commuted to life in prison six years later after the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was unconstitutional.