A convicted murderer from Texas shared his final words with the families of his victims shortly before his execution.
On Wednesday, January 28, Charles Victor Thompson — who was sentenced to death in connection with the April 1998 deaths of his former girlfriend Glenda Hayslip and her then-boyfriend, Darren Cain — died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.
Just before his death, he asked for the families of his victims for forgiveness, before adding that his hope was that they could “begin to heal and move past this.”
“There are no winners in this situation,” he said at the time, noting that his execution “creates more victims and traumatizes more people 28 years later.”
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“I’m sorry for what I did. I’m sorry for what happened, and I want to tell all of y’all, I love you and that keep Jesus in your life, keep Jesus first,” Thompson, 55, concluded.
He was pronounced dead at 6:50 p.m. CST, just over 20 minutes after the lethal injection was administered.
Following his execution, Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said the “chapter” was finally closed after nearly 30 years.
“This is an incredibly solemn moment when the state takes a life,” Teare continued. “But the relief that this is over for them was palpable.”
Earlier that week, Thompson’s legal team filed a request to have his death sentence reduced. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles denied the filing on Monday, January 26. Two days later, roughly one hour before his execution, the US Supreme Court also rejected Thompson’s appeal.
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Thompson was initially arrested in 1998, shortly after reportedly confessing to a friend that he shot his ex-girlfriend and her partner. Throughout his 1999 trial, prosecutors claimed his relationship with Hayslip had ended because Thompson had become “increasingly possessive, jealous and abusive,” per ABC News. However, because Cain died at the scene and Hayslip passed away one week later in the hospital, his legal team argued that she died due to negligent care from doctors — not solely from Thompson’s actions.
He was found guilty and sentenced to death on April 14, 1999.
While his sentence was overturned in 2005, he was eventually resentenced to death by lethal injection. Shortly after his resentencing, Thompson escaped from the Harris County Jail in Houston, Texas, by changing into a set of civilian clothes, walking out of the front door past deputies and flashing them a fake identification badge of some sort that he had managed to smuggle into the facility. He was on the run for three days before he was arrested again in Shreveport, Louisiana. He had allegedly been attempting to secure travel to Canada at the time.
In a 2005 interview with the Associated Press, Thompson reflected on what it felt like to be out of jail after so many years.
“I got to smell the trees, feel the wind in my hair, grass under my feet, see the stars at night,” he explained to the outlet. “It took me straight back to childhood being outside on a summer night.”
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