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Oklahoma execution of Steven Ray Thacker set to go ahead Tuesday

Thirteen years ago, while millions of folks were fretting the onset of Y2K, Steven Ray Thacker was creating a doomsday all his own.

From Dec. 23, 1999, to Jan. 2, 2000, Thacker killed three people in as many states, starting with the kidnapping, rape and fatal stabbing of Laci Dawn Hill, 25, of Bixby.

Handed the death penalty for Hill's slaying, he is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary.

"It's been 13 years too long as far as I'm concerned," Larry Eugene Griffin, Laci's father, said in a telephone interview. "Justice needs to be done for what he's done to my daughter."

Thacker used credit and debit cards stolen from Hill to purchase Christmas gifts for his family. Her body was found in an abandoned Mayes County cabin on Dec. 29, 1999, six days after he had gone to her Bixby home under the guise of buying a pool table that she had advertised in a newspaper.


Source: Tulsa World, March 10, 2013

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