HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A former crack cocaine addict who killed his girlfriend with an ax 14 years ago was executed Tuesday.
Timothy Titsworth, 34, apologized profusely as he was strapped to the gurney to be executed by lethal injection.
"If these words can ever touch your heart, I am sorry, I am truly sorry," he said to the victim's family.
Titsworth was arrested in 1992 driving the car of Christine Marie Sossaman, 26, whose body had been found at the home she had been sharing with him in Amarillo. She had been struck 16 times with a dull ax.
According to court records, a friend of Sossaman testified the victim told her the day before she was killed that she intended to ask Titsworth to leave because she believed he had been stealing from her.
Evidence showed that after the attack, Titsworth took her car along with items from the mobile home that he sold to buy more crack, then returned repeatedly to the murder scene to take more property to sell for drug money.