Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A condemned murderer repeatedly bashed his head on a metal bar until he knocked himself unconscious as his execution went horrifically wrong.Jimmy Lee Gray was convicted for the murder of three-year-old Deressa Jean Scales in 1976 – after kidnapping and sodomizing her while out on parole for the murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, Elda L.
Prince.As a result, he became the first person to be executed in Mississippi since 1976 when the death penalty was reinstated and was sent to the gas chamber on September 2, 1983.Gray was to die by inhaling lethal toxic gas.He was seated in the ‘death chair’ and a lever was pulled which combined cyanide capsules with a container of acid - but this.
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