Last Updated on: 18th July 2023, 01:44 pm
Death Row Inmate Tracy Beatty’s Last Words Before Her Execution
On Wednesday, an executed man in Texas was executed for the murder of his mother nearly 20 years ago, who was choked to death and buried in her own backyard.
At Huntsville State Penitentiary, Tracy Beatty, 61, said “see you on the other side” before being injected with pentobarbital, which would have killed her.
After an argument at his trailer in East Texas in November 2003, the convict was convicted of murdering his mother, Carolyn Click, who was only a year older than Beatty at the time.
Beatty’s lawyers have appealed his death sentence, saying he should not be sentenced to death given his mental illness. However, the request to stop the execution was rejected by the Supreme Court on Wednesday morning.
When asked by the director if he had any last words before the end of his life, Beatty broke down and began to cry.
He was chained to a stretcher and was struggling to speak when his voice broke.
“I just want to thank you…” Beatty spoke directly to his wife, who was watching from behind glass in the observation room.
“I don’t want you to go, baby. See you later when you’re there. I love you.”
After giving him a kiss, he thanked several other inmates on death row.
“I love you, my brothers,” he said.
“See you on the other side.”
Authorities say that before spending her mother’s money on drugs and alcohol, Beatty strangled her 62-year-old mother and buried her body next to her camper van in Whitehouse.
Prosecutors alleged that the mother and child had a “volatile and hostile relationship.” Click revealed to a neighbor that Beatty hit her several times before she died.
According to neighbor Lieanna Wilkerson, she allegedly claimed he “beat her so hard she thought she was dead.”
A month before his death, Beatty moved back in with Click, with Wilkerson stating that he was looking forward to his return so they would have time to work things out.
However, they began fighting every day, and Click asked him to leave at least twice, including just before he left.
“Many times [Beatty] had said he just wanted to shut her up, he just wanted to choke her and shut her up,” Wilkerson testified.
Beatty’s legal team used an expert assessment that the killer “was clearly psychotic and had a complex paranoid delusional belief system” in their petition to the courts to spare his life.
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According to this expert, the killer believed that the prison guards tortured him with their “threatening voices” through a device in his ear.
Although it has previously banned the death penalty for people with intellectual disabilities, the Supreme Court has yet to ban it for people with serious mental illnesses.
At 6:39 p.m. CST, Beatty was pronounced dead, making him the fourth inmate to be killed in Texas that year and 13th overall.
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