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Elroy Chester (June 14, 1969 – June 12, 2013) was an inmate on Texas death row who was executed at the Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, Texas, two days before his 44th birthday. He was convicted in 1998 of fatally shooting Willie Ryman III, a firefighter in Port Arthur, Texas. He did so after raping Ryman's two nieces. He had confessed to four other killings, and his DNA was linked to three rapes, including that of a ten-year-old girl. After his arrest, he said that he had committed these offenses because he was out of his mind "with hate for white people" due to lingering resentment over an altercation that he had once gotten into with a white employee of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. During his trial, Chester made multiple outbursts, threatened the lives of police officers, prison guards, and the families of jurors, and at one point declared, "If I hadn't shot my brother-in-law, I'd still be out there shooting white folks." He was originally scheduled for execution on April 24, but, due to an error in the execution warrant, the date was pushed back.
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14 June 1969 Jefferson County, Texas
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12 June 2013 (aged 43)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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