Vicious Killer Of Mother, Young Daughters Executed. Critics Say Death Caused Him Unnecessary Pain.

A Tennessee man who savagely shot to death his girlfriend and her six- and nine-year-old daughters in 1988 and was later condemned to death was executed on Tuesday. The headlines centered around critics of the execution who pointed to the fact that the state had refused to deactivate his implanted defibrillator, causing him pain while ...