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Tennessee death row inmate’s last words to son who witnessed killer dad’s execution
New York Post • • nation
Key Points:
- Anthony Hines, a Tennessee death row inmate, was executed by lethal injection for the 1985 murder of Catherine Jean Jenkins, a mother of four, with his last words directed to his son who witnessed the execution.
- Hines and his son, who last saw each other when the son was three, reconnected just four days before the execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.
- Jenkins’ son, Dennis, attended the execution and expressed hope that Hines experienced severe pain, recalling that his mother was defenseless during the attack.
- Hines had appealed his sentence on grounds that the execution doctor was incompetent, but the appeal was unsuccessful.
- The execution was part of a rare U.S. triple execution day, with two other inmates put to death in Oklahoma and Alabama, a practice considered unusual but coincidental by death penalty observers.
