A 42-year-old death row inmate wrote a haunting final statement before he was executed by lethal injection.
Michael Tisius was 19 when he fatally shot two jail guards, Jason Acton and Leon Egley, during a failed plan to free a former prisoner.
According to reports, he was neglected as a child and was homeless during his early teenage years.
According to the Mirror, Tisius issued a haunting final statement: “I am holding tightly to my faith. It’s all I have to take with me. I am sorry it had to come to this in this way.
“I wish I could have made things right while I was still here.
“I really did try to become a better man. I really tried hard to give as much as I could to as many as I could. I tried to forgive others as I wish to be forgiven.
“And I pray that God will forgive those who condemn me. Just as He forgave those who condemned Him.”
His statement continued: “I am sorry. And not because I am at the end. But because I truly am sorry. And I need to say that I love you Truffle. Seacrest Out!”
Speaking to The New York Times, former juror Jason Smith said he felt angry and remorseful.
“I feel that I wronged Michael. I hated having a part in somebody dying.”
Tisuis’ lawyers argued that because he was a teenager when he committed the crime, his brain was not fully developed yet and was more susceptible to manipulation.
Roy Vance, the former cellmate who Tisius tried to free, once bragged that the teen was ‘a kid in a grown man’s body and I knew I could manipulate him into what I wanted to do,’ the Kansas City Star reported.
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