A Texas death row inmate who gained notoriety after a brazen escape from jail has been executed for the double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 1998.
Charles Victor Thompson, 55, was executed by lethal injection on Wednesday, Jan. 28, for the murder of 39-year-old Dennise Hayslip and her boyfriend, 31-year-old Darren Cain. The couple was killed at Hayslip's Houston-area apartment after she told Thompson that she wanted to be with Cain, court records say.
Thompson was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CT.
"I hope the victim’s family, their extended family, and their loved ones can find forgiveness in their heart and that you can begin to heal and move past this," Thompson said as part of his last words, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. "There is no winners in this situation, it creates more victims and traumatizes more people 28 years later."
He went on to say: "I’m sorry for what I did."
