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Each inmate put to demise within the US is afforded the chance to say final phrases. Some apologize, some specific anger or phrases of affection for household. Glen Rogers had a message for President Trump.

A serial killer used his final phrases on Earth to shout-out President Donald Trump on Thursday.

“President Trump, preserve making America nice. I am able to go,” Glen Rogers, referred to as the “Casanova Killer,” mentioned as he lay strapped to an execution gurney seconds earlier than three medicine coursed by means of his veins and ended his life on the Florida State Jail in Raiford.

His final phrases have been reported by the Tampa Bay Instances and the Related Press, with reporters representing each shops as witnesses to the execution.

Randy Roberson, whose mom Andy Lou Jiles Sutton was a sufferer of the Casanova Killer, witnessed the execution and mentioned that Rogers’ remark about Trump appeared to confuse individuals within the room.

“I used to be like, ‘The place did that even come from?'” he mentioned.

His spouse, Amy Roberson − additionally a witness to the execution − mentioned she thought: “What the hell?”

Along with his help for Trump, Rogers expressed his love for his household. He additionally addressed the victims of his crimes.

“I do know there’s numerous questions that you simply want solutions to,” he mentioned. “I promise you within the close to future the questions will likely be answered and I hope in someway will carry you closure.”

This is what you might want to learn about Rogers and his victims, and what Trump has mentioned concerning the demise penalty.

Why was Rogers executed?

Glen Edward Rogers, 62, was executed Thursday by deadly injection for the homicide of Tina Marie Cribbs, one in all 4 single moms of their 30s with reddish hair who fell sufferer to the so-called “Casanova Killer.” Rogers was identified each because the “Casanova Killer” for his beauty and skill to attraction his future victims, and because the “Cross Nation Killer” as a result of the victims all lived in numerous states: California, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida.

“He is an animal,” one in all his sufferer’s sisters mentioned in court docket earlier than Rogers was sentenced to demise, in line with an archived report from the Related Press. “He is concerning the evilest factor I feel I’ve ever imagined.”

Quickly after his arrest, Rogers claimed to have killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles in June 1994, and about 70 individuals general. There was no proof to again that up.

Rogers − a local of Hamilton, Ohio − was pronounced useless at 6:16 p.m., turning into the sixteenth inmate executed within the U.S. this yr and the fifth in Florida. One other three males are set to be executed within the U.S. subsequent week, in Texas, Indiana and Tennessee.

Who have been the Casanova Killer’s victims?

Authorities linked 5 victims to the Casanova Killer. 4 of them have been moms with reddish hair of their 30s. Three of the murders occurred inside a six-day interval.

Mark Peters, a 72-year-old retired electrician in Hamilton, Ohio, with whom Rogers lived with briefly, was discovered useless in a shack owned by Rogers’ household in January 1994 in Beattyville, Kentucky.
Sandra Gallagher, a 33-year-old mom of three, of Santa Monica, California, killed on Sept. 28, 1995 in Van Nuys. Her physique was present in her burning automobile. She had met Rogers in a bar the night time of her homicide.
Linda Worth, a 34-year-old mom of two, discovered stabbed to demise within the bathtub of her house in Jackson, Mississippi, on Nov. 3, 1995. Worth briefly lived with Rogers, telling her mom: “He’s my dream man,” in line with an archived story within the Dayton Day by day Information.
Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mom of two, discovered stabbed to demise in a Tampa, Florida lodge bathtub on Nov. 7, 1995. Like Gallagher, she had met Rogers at a bar on the night time of her homicide.
Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, a 37-year-old mom of 4: three sons and a daughter who have been 19, 17, 8, and 6 when she was discovered stabbed to demise in her mattress on Nov. 9, 1995 in of Bossier Metropolis, Louisiana. Sutton and Rogers met earlier than her homicide and are believed to have slept collectively.

What has Trump mentioned about executions?

Trump is a staunch supporter of the demise penalty and has known as for the final word punishment to be carried out expeditiously for murderers languishing on demise row for many years.

He has additionally mentioned the punishment must be used for migrants who kill Individuals, individuals who kill law enforcement officials, and drug sellers and human traffickers.

Earlier this yr, Trump issued an govt order restoring federal executions.

“Earlier than, throughout, and after the founding of america, our cities, States, and nation have repeatedly relied upon capital punishment as the final word deterrent and solely correct punishment for the vilest crimes,” his order mentioned. “Our Founders knew properly that solely capital punishment can carry justice and restore order in response to such evil.”

Amanda Lee Myers is a senior crime reporter with USA TODAY.

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