John Wayne Conner—no relation to the cowboy actor with the
similar name—was executed by the state of Georgia tonight after spending 33
years on death row. Conner earned his death sentence for killing a friend after
an evening of drunken merrymaking. Conner became angry when the victim, James
White, remarked that he would like to sleep with Conner’s girlfriend. Conner then
bludgeoned White with a whisky bottle and a tree branch, and also beat the man
with his hands and feet. A shoe print was found in the middle of White’s
forehead.
For his last meal, John Wayne Conner had 10 pieces of fried
catfish, 10 hushpuppies, two triple deluxe hamburgers with bacon, two pints of
vanilla ice cream, and one sliced raw onion.
