https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-man-becomes-oldest-executed-25660999?utm_source=mirror_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_morning_newsletter2&utm_medium=email&pure360.trackingid=%7B%7ETrackingId%7E%7DMan becomes oldest executed inmate in US history for killing ex-girlfriend in 1985
Bigler Stouffer, 79, was put to death on Thursday by lethal injection despite pleas for his clemency over concerns regarding Oklahoma’s last two botched executions
By Christopher Bucktin United States Editor
20:43, 9 Dec 2021Updated22:08, 9 Dec 2021
America has carried out an execution on its oldest person in history. Bigler Stouffer, 79, was put to death on Thursday by lethal injection despite pleas for his clemency over concerns regarding Oklahoma’s last two botched executions. The convicted murderer, convicted in 1985, was given a lethal injection around 10am at the State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was pronounced dead 16 minutes later. According to witnesses Stouffer was seen laughing and joking with his spiritual advisor before uttering his final words. He said: “My request is that my Father forgive them. Thank you.â€
For his last meal, he had a chicken burger, two slices of bread, broccoli, mixed fruit, two biscuits, a fruit drink, one bottle of water. He was given the meal on Wednesday evening, the night before his execution. Stouffer was the first person killed by Oklahoma since John Grant convulsed on the gurney and vomited during his lethal injection in October as the state ended a six-year execution moratorium brought on by concerns over its protocols. The pensioner had maintained his innocence over the 1985 attack that left schoolteacher Linda Reaves dead and her boyfriend, Doug Ivens, seriously injured. Stouffer was convicted and sentenced to death in 2003 after his first conviction and death sentence were overturned.