Wife killer sang songs as he was put to death by lethal injection

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He sang out: ‘Soon and very soon we are going to see the king.’

Donnie Johnson, 68, sang hymns for two minutes as he was put to death by lethal injection for killing his wife Connie in 1984

Donnie Johnson, 68, was sentenced to death for stuffing a 30-gallon waste bag down the throat of his wife Connie Johnson in Memphis, Tennessee in 1984. Donnie Johnson was put to death with three drugs: midazolam, to render him unconscious, then vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride to stop his lungs and heart

Kelley Henry, Johnson’s attorney, said that the midalozam had not left his client completely unconscious, claiming that Johnson could feel the searing pain of the final two drugs, which would have given him the sensation of drowning.Johnson, 68, was sentenced to death for the 1984 murder of his wife Connie Johnson in Memphis. He suffocated her by stuffing a 30-gallon trash bag down her throat.

 

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