With less than 24 hours before his execution, and with conviction in his voice, condemned Ledell Lee told me: “Chris, they are killing an innocent man.” Speaking from his “cage” on the Varner Unit near Grady, Arkansas, where he awaited his last meal, it was, to my knowledge, the last interview he ever gave.
The following day, after 21 years on death row, he was dead. Lee, 51, was one of eight men put on a conveyor belt of death by a state desperate to ensure its supply of midazolam, the sedative used in lethal injections, didn’t expire.
He was convicted of murdering Debra Reese by beating her with a tyre thumper, a tool resembling a sawn-off baseball bat used by truckers to test the pressure of their wheels.
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