Barney Ronald Fuller Jr. was executed by the state of Texas tonight for a
double murder he committed in 2003. After feuding with his neighbors for years,
Fuller shot and killed the married couple and wounded one of their children
after firing 60 rounds into their house with an assault rifle. Fuller first
shot the husband, then announced “Party’s over, bitch,” before he killed the
wife.
“It’s just a heinous crime,” said Randy Hargrove, a former deputy who worked
the crime scene. “It’s really sad…but you reap what you sow. If you plant corn,
you don’t harvest peas.”
Fuller had neither corn nor peas with his last meal, but he did have a
boatload of beans. His entire last meal menu consisted of Salisbury steak,
mashed potatoes, green beans, pinto beans, sliced bread, pear crisp, and a
choice of water, tea, or punch to drink. Because Texas no longer allows special
last meal requests, Fuller was served the same food as others in his unit.
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.
Earl Forrest, convicted triple-killer and 10-time winner of the Missouri prison system's Allman Brothers Band Member Lookalike Contest, was executed tonight by that state. Forrest earned his death sentence after embarking on a drunken shooting spree in 2002 that left two acquaintances and a sheriff's deputy dead. Forrest got mad because he had set one of his acquaintances up with a new meth dealer, and in return that acquaintance had agreed to buy Forrest a new lawn mower and a mobile home. When the deal fell through, Forrest shot and killed his female friend and a male friend of hers, then shot and killed the deputy during a firefight with law enforcement officials.
For his last meal, Earl Forrest asked for steak, pasta, a fruit plate, sliced tomatoes and cucumbers, chocolate cake, and milk.
