Killer faces eye for eye

TENNESSEE executed its third inmate since November, killing a man who maintained he didn’t stab a mother and her daughter to death in 1986.

Stephen West, 56, was pronounced dead in Nashville at 7.27pm yesterday.

For his final words, West said: “In the beginning, God created man.” Then he started to cry and continued: “And Jesus wept. That is all.”

Just this week, West decided to die in the chair after previously voicing no preference, which would have defaulted him to lethal injection.