Killer Makes Obscene Gesture to Executioner
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FLORENCE, Ariz. — A man unleashed a stream of obscenities and extended his middle finger moments before being executed for injecting his ex-girlfriend with a lethal dose of heroin in 1976.
Jimmie Wayne Jeffers, 49, squirmed as he received the injection strapped to a gurney. His middle finger was still extended when he died Wednesday night.
Jeffers was convicted of killing Penelope Cheney, an ex-girlfriend.
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