Ga. Finger the man who killed college students

Jackson-a 38-year-old inmate, who was convicted of two college students in 1995, was executed in Georgia on Thursday and apologized to the families by both before he was injected to a state prison.

Andrew Allen Cook was declared dead at 11:22 p.m., about 14 minutes after his injection of the deadly medication.

In his last words, he apologized to the families of the students of Mercer University, Patrick Hendrickson (22) and Michele Lee Cartagena (19) Grant Hendrickson Grant, who were shot several times when they sat in a car on Lake Juliette. He said what he was doing was pointless.

“I'm sorry,” said Cook when he was strapped to a Gurney. “I will not ask you to forgive myself. I can't even do it myself.”

He also thanked his family for “their support that she was with me, and I'm sorry that I took so much to all of them.”

The Georgia Appeal Court temporarily determined the execution of Cook on Wednesday in order to take into account the state's fatal injection procedure. But the Supreme Court of Georgia raised the stay on Thursday and all other vocations were exhausted.

Cook was the first inmate that has been carried out since the state since the state changed its execution procedure in July from a combination of three drugs to a single dose of the sedative pentobarbital.

In various phases, the lawyers of Cook argued in their appeals because of his death sentence that he suffered from mental illnesses and was treated for depression until the time of his death.

Mary Hendrickson, one of the victims, recently told WMAZ TV in Macon that she had been waiting for justice for 18 years.

“I think that's it: the work of the devil,” she said. “If all of this is going on, I only thought to myself: 'Well, the devil will not win. He won't win my heart. He won't win.'”

The injection with a single drug started around 11:08 p.m. Koch started a few times and his eyes soon became difficult. His chest was about two or three minutes long as his eyes closed. Not too long afterwards two doctors examined him and nodded and Carl Humphrey, were of the state prison in Jackson, declared him dead.

Correction officers said, shortly before the execution was to start, Cook received visits from the family on Thursday and ate the last meal that he had requested – steak, a baked potato, potato cuts, roasted shrimp, lemon base cake and soda.

A Cook of Monroe County sentenced to death after he was convicted of 75 miles south of Atlanta on January 2, 1995 at Lake Juliette, about 75 miles. Cook was only charged more than two years later. He confessed to his father, a Makon FBI agent who testified to the process of his son.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation turned to John Cook in December 1995 because they were interested in talking to his son. When he called his 22-year-old son to tell him that the GBI wanted to speak to him, he had no idea that the younger man was considered a suspect.

“I said: 'Andy, the GBI is looking for you about the murder of the Juliette am See. Do you know something about it?'” John Cook said in March 1998 when he examined his son. “He said, 'Papa, I can't tell you. You are one of them.

Finally Andrew Cook told his father that he knew about the killings that he was there and that he knew who shot the couple, remembered John Cook.

“I just felt that the world collapsed into me. But I felt that he was there and only saw what happened,” he said. “I then asked: 'Did you shoot her?'

“After a break on the phone, he said: 'Yes.'”

As a law enforcement officer, John Cook said that he was forced to call his supervisor and contacted Monroe County's sheriff.

When he went away from the booth, the disturbed father tasted the families of the victims who were sitting in the first row of the courtroom of Henry County, “I'm sorry”. Several members of both families recognized his apology.

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