Oklahoma has executed a man for the torture killing of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993
FILE - This undated photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows Richard Fairchild. Oklahoma plans to execute Fairchild on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993. McALESTER, Okla. — — Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the torture slaying of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in 1993.
Richard Stephen Fairchild, who turned 63 on Thursday, began receiving the first of a lethal three-drug combination at 10:10 a.m. at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. He was declared dead at 10:24 a.m. Fairchild, an ex-Marine, was convicted of killing Adam Broomhall after the child wet the bed. Prosecutors say Fairchild held both sides of Adam’s body against a scorching furnace, then threw him into a table. The child never regained consciousness and died later that day.
Strapped to a gurney inside the death chamber, Fairchild thanked his attorneys and prison staff and apologized to Broomhall's family.“I'm at peace with God. Don't grieve for me because I'm going home to meet my heavenly father."“Our long journey for justice has finally arrived," Hurst said, adding that he was surprised to hear Fairchild express remorse for killing his nephew. “He hadn't said that in 30 years.
Prosecutors from the Oklahoma attorney general's office had described the boy's killing as torture when they wrote to the state's Pardon and Parole Board, which
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