Killer executed for four slayings
Fourteen years after brutal murders, victim's families still remember.

 
By Chad Previch
Published: January 10, 2007

McALESTER — More than 14 years after four restaurant workers in Tulsa were ushered into a refrigerator and shot in their heads, their killer was executed Tuesday.

Corey Duane Hamilton , 38, died at 6:14 p.m. by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester , becoming the first prisoner in the United States to be executed this year. The procedure started at 6:08 p.m.

His last words were...


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