howdy ya'll
10-28-2008, 10:40 PM
one down, thousands to go, and not quick enough.....
(October 28, 2008)—Former plumbing supply salesman Eric Nenno, 47, who was convicted of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl from his neighborhood in 1995, and then raping and strangling her was put to death Tuesday evening in Huntsville.
Prosecutors said he lured Nicole Benton from her father’s birthday party to his home and then choked her to death when she began to cry and resist as he tried to rape her.
He then raped her repeatedly, investigators said, and hid her nude body in the attic of his home.
Nenno confessed to the abduction and attack two days later and led officers to her remains in his home in Hockley, about 35 miles northwest of Houston.
Nenno declined the warden's offer to make a final statement.
He was pronounced dead eight minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow.
His victim's father and grandfather were among the witnesses, but Nenno didn't acknowledge them.
Nicole Benton's grandfather walked up to the window separating him from Nenno, and then turned around and walked to the back of the chamber.
He was the 13th Texas inmate executed this year and the fourth this month in the nation's most active death penalty state.
Another execution is scheduled Thursday.
(October 28, 2008)—Former plumbing supply salesman Eric Nenno, 47, who was convicted of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl from his neighborhood in 1995, and then raping and strangling her was put to death Tuesday evening in Huntsville.
Prosecutors said he lured Nicole Benton from her father’s birthday party to his home and then choked her to death when she began to cry and resist as he tried to rape her.
He then raped her repeatedly, investigators said, and hid her nude body in the attic of his home.
Nenno confessed to the abduction and attack two days later and led officers to her remains in his home in Hockley, about 35 miles northwest of Houston.
Nenno declined the warden's offer to make a final statement.
He was pronounced dead eight minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow.
His victim's father and grandfather were among the witnesses, but Nenno didn't acknowledge them.
Nicole Benton's grandfather walked up to the window separating him from Nenno, and then turned around and walked to the back of the chamber.
He was the 13th Texas inmate executed this year and the fourth this month in the nation's most active death penalty state.
Another execution is scheduled Thursday.