Mississippi executed a man on Tuesday for the 1990 murders of four of his young nieces and nephews, with the state's governor rejecting heart-wrenching pleas for a reprieve from the mothers of the children he killed.
Henry Curtis Jackson Jr, 47, was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:13 p.m. local time at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, according to corrections department spokeswoman Jasmine Cole.
He did not request a last meal and ate none of the standard dinner offered to him, corrections officials said. He also declined a sedative ahead of the execution.
Jackson killed the four children, aged between two and five, during a rampage that started when he went to his mother's home in Leflore County to take money from her safe on November 1, 1990.
His mother was at church that day, but Jackson's adult sister, Regina Jackson, was at the home with her two daughters and four nieces and nephews.
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