Georgia executes death row prisoner J. W. Ledford Jr. J. W. Ledford Jr., was given the lethal injection at 1. Jackson, Georgia, on Wednesday A smiling murderer quoted Cool Hand Luke in his final words before being killed in the first execution of the year in Georgia. J. W. Ledford Jr., was given the lethal injection at 1. Jackson and when asked if he had any last words, he delivered a line from the movie about a prisoner who refused to conform to rules in jail.'What we have here is a failure to communicate. 'Some men you just can't reach,' he said. 'I am not the failure.

You are the failure to communicate.''You can kiss my white trash a**,' he added, continuing to smile. Hours earlier, the US Supreme Court had turned down requests from his lawyers for a final minute stay. Ledford Jr., 4. Dr. Harry Johnston, who he stabbed to death.  As the warden exited the execution chamber at 1: 0.

Ledford began talking again, but the microphones had been cut off so his words weren't audible to witnesses. Records from past executions show that the lethal drug generally starts flowing within a couple of minutes of the warden exiting the execution chamber. Ledford raised his head to look at his right arm right after the warden left and about a minute later appeared to speak to a guard to his right. He then rested his head, closed his eyes and appeared to take several deep breaths before falling still within two or three minutes of the warden leaving the room. The prisoner was given the lethal injection at the the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia in a death chamber similar to the one shown above He had been scheduled to die at 7pm on Tuesday but the 1.

The prisoner's final meal totaled a whopping 5,0. It consisted of filet mignon wrapped in bacon with pepper jack cheese, large french fries, 1. Sprite. His earlier request to be executed by firing squad was also turned down last week. He feared the injection would leave him 'in agony' and that it would be 'unconstitutionally painful'. In a statement released shortly after 1. Wednesday, Georgia's Office of the Attorney General said: 'The lawfully ordered execution of J. W. Ledford, Jr. for the 1.

Dr. Harry Buchanan Johnston, Jr. Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia.'The sentence was carried out after the United States Supreme Court denied Ledford's request for a stay of execution.' Ledford previously told police he had gone to Johnston's home on January 3. After the older man accused him of stealing and smacked him, Ledford pulled out a knife and stabbed Johnston to death. The pathologist who did the autopsy said the victim suffered 'one continuous or two slices to the neck' and bled to death. Ledford dragged the victim's body to another part of Johnston's property and covered it up. The killer then went to Johnston's house with a knife and demanded money from the wife of the man he had just murdered.

He took money and four guns from the home, tied up Johnston's wife and left in Johnston's truck. He was arrested later that day. There were protests outside the State Capitol on Tuesday as his scheduled execution date approached LEDFORD'S LAST MEAL - CALORIESFilet mignon wrapped in bacon (6oz) - approximately 3. Pepper jack cheese (1oz) - approximately 1. Blooming onion (1) - approximately 1,9. Large french fries (5. Fried pork chops (1.

Chicken tenders with sauce (1. Pecan pie (1 slice) - approximately 4. Vanilla ice cream  (. Sherbet (. 5 cup) - approximately 1.

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Sources: My Fitness Pal, Fat. Secret. com Ledford told police he had a number of beers and smoked a couple joints in the hours before the killing. Ledford's lawyers had asked the parole board to spare him, citing a rough childhood, substance abuse from an early age and his intellectual disability. After a hearing Monday, the board declined to grant clemency.

Following its normal practice, the board did not give a reason for its denial. Because of changes in brain chemistry caused by a drug Ledford has been taking for chronic nerve pain for more than a decade, there is a high risk that the pentobarbital Georgia plans to use to execute him will not render him unconscious and devoid of sensation or feeling, his lawyers wrote in a federal lawsuit filed Thursday. That would violate the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment enshrined in the Eighth Amendment of the U.

S. Constitution, the lawsuit says. When challenging an execution method on those grounds, a U. S. Supreme Court precedent requires inmates to propose a known and available alternative. Ledford's lawyers, therefore, proposed that he be executed by firing squad, a method that is not allowed under Georgia law. A woman protests outside the State Capitol building in Georgia ahead of J.

W. Ledford Jr's execution He died at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center in Jackson, Georgia, on Wednesday A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit, saying Ledford's attorneys had failed to show that execution by pentobarbital would be 'sure or very likely' to cause him extreme pain as required by U. S. Supreme Court precedent. U. S. District Judge Steve Jones also said the decision to wait until just a few days before his execution date to file the lawsuit suggested a stalling tactic. Ledford was only 2.

Dr. Harry Johnston, whom he had known all of his life Ledford's lawyers appealed to the 1. U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals and asked that court to temporarily halt the execution. A three- judge panel on Monday rejected that request.  Ledford's lawyers had also asked a state court judge to halt the execution because he was only 2. Princess Tutu Episode 10. Johnston. Just as juvenile offenders are considered less culpable and not the 'worst of the worst' for whom the death penalty is reserved, the execution of those under 2. Ledford's lawyers argue. A Butts County Superior Court judge rejected that petition, and Ledford's lawyers have appealed to the state Supreme Court. The Georgia Supreme Court, later Tuesday, rejected the appeal of the lower court refusal to stop the execution.

The state executed nine inmates last year, more than any other state and the most Georgia had executed in a single calendar year since the U. S. Supreme Court allowed the death penalty to resume 4.