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Updated: 9/20/2012 7:04 pm

HUNSTVILLE, Texas (AP) - An ex-convict who confessed to killing five people at a Dallas-area car wash a week after he was fired from his job has been executed.


Robert Wayne Harris received lethal injection Thursday evening after the U.S. Supreme Court refused appeals to halt the punishment.


The 40-year-old Harris was convicted of two of the five slayings 12 years ago at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving. He also was charged with abducting and killing a woman months before the March 2000 killing spree and led police to her remains.


He is the eighth Texas prisoner to be executed this year.

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Deepcscott - 9/22/2012 3:47 PM
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Only the eighth? Pick up the pace Gov. Perry. Time is wasting and so is my tax money.

FreeHole - 9/21/2012 8:28 AM
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This piece is good news, but unfortunately also shows a severe flaw in the justice system: Being a confessed and proven murderer, the criminal should be executed within months of his/her conviction, not years and sometimes decades. That is absurd. PRE-POST-ER-OUS. Because of the lawmakers and judges timid approach to crime, we have hundreds of murders a year, but only a few executions related to same murders. Pusillanimous is the correct word for that attitude toward criminals. We should learn from some other species, which kill from a very young age any member of the clan that proves to be so unruly or overly aggresive that disrupts the normal activities of the group. IF THERE'S NO DOUBT OF GUILT, EXECUTE THEM PRONTO!

gofigure - 9/21/2012 6:43 AM
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Best news to start the day off!

Baven2 - 9/20/2012 10:16 PM
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Alright, some good news on a Thursday. All convicted murderers in this country should be executed, regardless of age, race, intelligence, or socioeconomic condition. They kill. They die.

Javelina - 9/20/2012 10:14 PM
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Unfortunate thing about this is that taxpayer money supported this slug for years while he awaited execution. Hope he burns in Hell for his heinous crimes.
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