The Nation - News from March 14, 1985
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Stephen Peter Morin, convicted of killing three women in a five-week spree in Texas in 1981, was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday after lying on a gurney for 45 minutes while technicians at the Huntsville prison repeatedly pricked his arms and legs to find a vein undamaged by drug abuse. Morin, 37, a drifter from Rhode Island, had pleaded guilty to capital murder and insisted that he wanted no attempts to block his execution.
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