Condemned Killer Roots for Cowboys
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A man who spent half his life on death row for killing the manager of a Houston ice cream company was executed by injection in Huntsville, Texas. The final thoughts of William Prince Davis, 42, were of the Dallas Cowboys football team. At the end of a lengthy statement in which he expressed love for his family and friends, he looked at the warden and said, “Oh, I’d like to say in closing, What about those Cowboys!” Davis spent nearly 21 years awaiting execution after being convicted of the 1978 murder. Davis, a seventh-grade dropout, shot Richard Lang, 60, before fleeing the ice cream company’s offices with $712.
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