When asked if he had any last words, Rojem, who was strapped to a gurney and had an IV in his tattooed left arm, said: 'I don't. I've said my goodbyes.'
FILE - This photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Rojem , a death row inmate housed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, Okla., Feb. 11, 2023.
When asked if he had any last words, Rojem, who was strapped to a gurney and had an IV in his tattooed left arm, said: "I don't. I've said my goodbyes." Rojem's attorneys argued at a clemency hearing this month that DNA evidence taken from the girl's fingernails did not link him to the crime.In a statement read by Attorney General Gentner Drummond after the execution, Layla's mother, Mindy Lynn Cummings, said: "We remember, honor and hold her forever in our hearts as the sweet and precious 7-year-old she was.
"I wasn't a good human being for the first part of my life, and I don't deny that," said Rojem, handcuffed and wearing a red prison uniform. "But I went to prison. I learned my lesson and I left all that behind."
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