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May 15, 1986 · Jay Kelly Pinkerton, convicted of the mutilation-slaying of one woman and the murder of another, said goodby to his father and was executed today by injection, nine months after escaping the...
May 15, 1986 · HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Jay Kelly Pinkerton, a butcher who killed and mutilated two women when he was a teenager, was executed Thursday, the youngest person to be put to death in the United...
Pinkerton, an apprentice meat cutter, was executed for raping and mutilating Sarah Donn Lawrence in 1979 during a burglary of her Amarillo home when he was 17 years old. Mrs. Lawrence, 30, was stabbed more than 50 times and her throat was slashed.
Aug 14, 1985 · HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A 23-year-old man ordered to die for raping and mutilating a housewife visited with his brothers and parents Wednesday and awaited word on whether the Supreme Court would stop...
Watch TenBrink describe chasing and arresting Jay Kelly Pinkerton on the night of Sarah Donn Lawrence’s murder.
May 15, 1986 · Jay Kelly Pinkerton, convicted of stabbing two women to death, exhausted last-minute appeals and was executed by lethal injection early today. The Supreme Court twice refused Wednesday to ...
Inmate Information. Last Statement. Date of Execution: May 15, 1986. Inmate: Jay Kelly Pinkerton #686. Last Statement: "Be strong for me," Pinkerton told his father, Gene Pinkerton, as witnesses entered the execution chamber. "I want you to know I’m at peace with myself and with my God," Pinkerton said.
