Execution Report: Dale Scheanette

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A jury convicted Scheanette of the capital murder of Wendie Prescott in January 2003 and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in September 2004. All of his subsequent appeals in state and federal court were denied.

Scheanette was charged with Vu's murder, but was not tried.

Scheanette declined to speak with reporters while on death row. At his execution, when asked if he wanted to make a last statement, he paused, then said, "My only statement is that no cases ever tried have been error-free. Those are my words. No cases are error-free." He did not acknowledge the six witnesses who attended on behalf of his victims. The lethal injection was then started. He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m.

By David Carson. Posted on 11 February 2009.
Sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Attorney General's Office, Associated Press, court documents.