Joshua Bishop nodded an acknowledgment to the men who sent him to prison, mouthed "I love you" to his attorney and then uttered his last words Thursday night.
"Our Father . . ." and his voice trailed off as he slipped into unconsciousness, unable to continue the Lord's Prayer aloud as the poison entered his bloodstream.
At the age of 19, Bishop beat a man to death with a curtain rod. Twenty-two years later, at 41, he was put to death at the Georgia prison in Jackson.
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