Last Words: Texas Con Calls Lethal Injection 'Awesome'

Photo Credit: Sarah G…[Convicted murderer Richard] Cobb, 29, spent a decade on death row for the murder of Kenneth Vandever, a man whom he abducted and later killed in a convenience store robbery 11 years ago. Cobb abducted Vandever, then 37, and two other women whom he shot with a shotgun and left for dead. The women survived to call police, but Vandever died…

As the first injection entered his bloodstream, Cobb lifted his head from the gurney on which he was tied down, and craned his neck to stare at the warden who stood behind him.

“Wow!” Cobb shouted. “That is great. That is awesome! Thank you, warden! Thank you (expletive) warden!” he said.

Soon after the outburst, “his head fell back on the pillow, and his neck twisted at an odd angle, with his mouth and eyes open,” the AP reported.