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Stories Tapes: True Crime" on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your podcasts. (gentle music) - You don't go to the death house for selling dope or stealing cars. If you can break into the house of an 87 year old widow
woman and you can beat her and you can rape her,
steal everything she's got. And because she's reluctant
to give you the wedding ring that hasn't left her hand in 65 years you put a pistol right
here and blow her head off. If you can commit that kind of crime, you deserve the death penalty. And I have no problem at all executing anybody who would
commit that kind of crime. And those are the people who you deal with in the death house. - [Dane] We're Texas, and if you get the death penalty, well by God you're going to die. - [Rodney] Why are you not televising it? Why are you not saying, "Okay, look on Wednesday night, death night we're going to kill the guy who did this." - [Pat] If you slap me,
I'm going to slap you back. You insult me, I'm going to slap you. People all over the world talk about us. Texans aren't playing when they say don't mess with us. - [Mike] And I think the court
records show that there were five shots fired within 40 seconds. So that's one shot, what,
every eight seconds. - [Christie] This story is
told from the point of view of the children which I don't really think you never hear, what about the kids? (gentle music) (clock chiming) - [Woman] That's killing
time, it's six o'clock, time for an execution. - [Interviewer] What
was your childhood like? - As far as I really remember wonderful. I just, I remember playing with Barbies and my dad came to Baton Rouge
and built me a Barbie house. And it was wonderful. And I mean, the only difference between me and any of my friends was that my dad lived in Dallas
and I went to see him. I mean everything was very well hidden from me. I don't even know how I found out that he was abusive to my mom. - The judge said to me, you know, "I've been a judge for 20 years. I've seen everything. I've done many, many criminal trials. I've seen many criminal people
in and out of my courtroom, but I want to tell you that you need to take this very seriously because this man is a sociopath and you need to be afraid for your life from him because he could
very well next time be before me and you won't be
here to tell your story." - Oh, when I, when I attacked Michelle? I wouldn't really call
it attack, went up to her when she's walking down the sidewalk. And I said, "You're going to
have to learn this lesson." And I just held her by the shoulder and I popped her in the head twice. And you know, she moved her head the wrong
way and I snapped her nose. - The first blow that
he hit me was in my eye. And it was like, I felt my eye at the back of my head and come forward. But then he hit my nose,
which broke my nose, the bone punched through right here. - And she fell down
and I just walked away. She said I struck her about 20 times but she was unconscious
before she hit the ground. - And then my jaw,
which dislocated my jaw. And then I had like a big bruise here. And as I fell, he just kept hitting. And once I hit the ground,
then he just started kicking. - Well, the fact that
she got me put in prison she knows the bullshit she pulled. The only way to keep from
sending her front teeth flying on her is asshole is
to have me behind this glass. Cause she's a bitch. And she deserved to have
the shit knocked out of her. But you know what the hell? - And he quit and ran and left. And I know that ultimately the neighbors that told the police they felt that had they
not run up, run him off, the two of them, that he'd have killed me. That that was just, you
could see in his face the intent to kill me at that time. - [Interviewer] And when you
think about that incident, how does it make you feel? - Makes me feel like I
should have killed her. She's such a pain in the ass. She couldn't take a lesson. (train bell chimes) - I've never seen my dad
dangerous a day in my life. He never did anything to make me feel like he was a threat to society. - Tonight in Huntsville, in the execution capitol
of the United States, a man by the name of Coy "Elvis" Wesbrook is going to be murdered by
the Texas prison system. Elvis, if you can hear us, you should know that we are out here, we're protesting this execution. We will be out here standing
in solidarity with you until it is over. - [Interviewer] Can you
tell me what happened or why your dad ended up in prison? - My dad killed five people. - The death house is, is a
prison and it holds a couple of thousand people. Where they have protestors
stand is on one corner and catty corner, all the
way in the back of the prison is where they execute. I've understood from people
who got last minute stays that we can hear you on the
bullhorn way back in here. So when Coy, or who goes
by the name of Elvis, when Elvis is executed
today, I hope he can hear us and know that his parents may have died but there are people that
care that he's being murdered. - I've never been ready for my dad to die. I kind of wished that
something would have happened where he would have died on his own, like a heart attack or something else. So I wouldn't have had to endure this pain that I've went through. - [Interviewer] Okay. So tell
me what your dad was like. - [Sunny] He was a kind, loving father. Was my childhood happy? Mostly that my childhood was, with him yes. - I understand that one
of the victim's brothers is in prison. In fact, he is incarcerated
at the Walls unit. The Walls unit is where
the executions take place. - It's so crazy. I was in
the vault library the day they was taking him over to execute him. And I was, I was trying to
see how I felt about that. You know, cause the warden called me out. He says, "Hey man, you know,
we're fixing to bring this guy in here and we're going to kill him. Or how are you going to act? You know, I need to know how
you're going to react to this. You know, you know are we're going to have
any problems, you know?" Well you're already killing him. What kind of problems
you're going to get from me? What am I going to do, run
out and kill him first? - Mr. Wesbrook was
actually the first client that I was appointed on
when I moved to New Mexico. And that was 13 years ago. So I've been representing
him for 13 years. His case is the saddest
of all 15 of these things that I've handled because
he really is intellectually disabled or mentally retarded
is the former word for it. Even the state's expert tested him at below the IQ cutoff level with a 66 IQ. But nonetheless, it's Texas
man, you know, and it's it's almost impossible. I mean, unless you're barely functional it's impossible to get your
death penalty taken away for mental retardation. - [Coy] If you don't
have an speech impediment and you're not winking,
blinking, drooling, you know, look like you've got down
syndrome, you don't qualify. Well, I don't qualify because I'm not winking,
blinking, drooling and I don't have down syndrome. That doesn't mean I'm not retarded. - The psychologist that
tested him was a man named Denkowski who has been discredited, no longer allowed to testify
as an expert witness in cases. He ruled that this man had an
IQ of 66, which is very low, but then the district attorney
told him to "check it again." And then it went up because
he was getting paid. So that's kind of the
story of justice in Texas. Those with the money, get what they want. And what's the saying? Those without the capital,
get the punishment. - [Coy] Well, they tried
to say I had a 92 IQ and there is no way that
I could have a 92 IQ because I wouldn't do any of my homework. I wouldn't do any class work. I was a straight F student. - I mean, he insists,
he's mentally impaired. I interviewed him and
he came across pretty, I don't want to say
intelligent, but cogent to me. I'm no psychiatrist or
psychologist like, you know, so I can't make that judgment. Although I have talked to people who indeed I've thought
were mentally impaired and he wasn't one of them but then that's strictly a judgment based on interviews I've done with, you know, hundreds of inmates. - [Gloria] People with
mental illness are executed. People who's attorney's
slept in court are executed. People who have very low IQs and function like a child are executed. This is what Texas is
doing with our money. - A person who is intellectually
deficient has a low IQ makes no difference. That person knows the difference
between right and wrong. There is also a difference between being insane and being a dummy. And if you have a low
IQ, that's not a defense it's not a defense in Texas
for capital punishment. And I don't think it should be a defense. (gentle music) - Do I think I was a good
father to Liberty and Faith? Yes. I, I mean, you know, I tried to be. - Faith was a tomboy. She played soccer, you know,
didn't want to wear a dress. Now Liberty was in princess
costume almost every day. - Oh gosh. Oh my fondest memory of my daughters. Well, I have another daughter
she's 30 now, Christie. When we used to all get
together and go somewhere it was a kind of a little
bit of a three ring circus. If you could imagine three
highly energetic, fun, little girls, just having a great time. So when Mary Jean filed for divorce I knew she was going to betray me and that betrayal would probably
lead to all of our deaths. So I went and got their names. - I mean, everything was very well hidden from me until that Christmas, when he beat up Mary Jean in front of me. That I knew any part of that. I mean he had never laid a hand on me. He rarely even yelled at me. - The parole officer
actually called him and said, "We need to come get you. You know, now the complaints
been made, you're in violation of probation. We need to come pick you up." And he said, "Well, give me one more day. You know, just let me have
one night with my girls and I'll turn myself in tomorrow." You know, somebody's kicking
themselves that said, "Okay." The younger one Liberty had
hidden up under the beds. She had to pull her out from under the bed to make her go to see her dad. - They had begged their
mom, not to make them go. And she could not defy the court order because it was a court ordered visitation. The girl's mom was so
terrified of him that she met and did the exchange of the girls, I believe, in a public parking lot. - And then delivered them to her, to John. And they got in the car and
went to the back window. And I can't imagine this is as a mom, but the last thing she
saw was the girls just with their face plastered
up against the window waving bye to her in that parking lot. (gentle music) - Coy Wesbrook, who's
about to be put to death, was divorced from his wife
back in the late 1990s. Apparently their rocky
relationship never really ended even though they were divorced and they had continued to see each other. He shows up at her apartment
just east of Houston in a place called Channelview thinking that they're going
to get back together again, only he finds that there's a
party going on at her apartment with her roommate and
three men who were there. - [Coy] Well, it began
about between 9:30 and 10. And when I walked inside the house I asked her, I said, "What's all this?" And I had no earthly idea who they were. She tried to tell me well, "You remember Kelly Hazlip." I said,
"No, I don't remember him." And if it was one of her friends. It was probably somebody
that she'd been to bed with. - The guy was the last
guy standing, you know? So whatever he, whatever
his story was was what it was boiled down to. But you know nobody was there but him and the five people that died. - As the evidence shows
in the case, or at least as Wesbrook explains, she goes into a room and goes and has sex with one of
the guys, or they make fun of Wesbrook. And she decides to have
sex with another one of the guys. He's tired of being ridiculed. He decides he's going to leave. - [Coy] I sat there long enough
to have three or four beers. I finally decided that enough was enough. I'd had enough. You know, she didn't really
want me to come home because if she had these people
wouldn't have been there. And she had already went
into the bedroom with one of these guys and I told her girlfriend Ruthy. I just said, I said, "Well,
when she comes out of there, you tell her I left." And I said, "And tell
her, don't be calling me and don't be bothering me." And I said, because I said, "I'm done. I'm through this is it." - My brother that he killed, he was the first, really the first member of my family that had passed away. And it really, it tore my family up. And like, I mean, it just, it,
it killed everybody inside. I mean, it was like,
they didn't just kill... He didn't just kill my brother he killed my entire family. - He's a man that shouldn't be executed. He obviously needs mental health care. And I don't know if he has just a low IQ or else he has a mental illness but he's got mental issues
and he should not be up there in that death house waiting for them. They're probably putting
the IV in right now and getting him ready
so that at six o'clock when the witnesses walk in they could open the curtains and they can see him lying
there and they'll kill him. As the saying goes, "Why do
we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong?" (gentle music) - So when my mom told me
at the beginning of January that his execution date had been set. It was more just overall sadness. I'm not going for him. I am going for me because I want to see my dad one last time. But when I finally got
in there and I saw him, he, I could... He was surprised to see me but he was happy that I was there and he told me then like,
he had always, part of him had always wished that I would never come just so I didn't have
to see him like that. - Oh, what are my feelings
towards my execution day? Yeah. It's two weeks today's Wednesday. So it will be on Wednesday, the 30th. Yeah, it's a way to get out of here. - [Christie] The thought of
being executed upsets me. For 15 years I had prayed
that he would die in prison from anything before an
execution date was ever set. - Would I say I'm ready to be executed? I mean, I don't want to
be, because especially now that I'm speaking to my
daughter, I like that. But, um... I mean, as far as like mentally prepared. Yeah, I mean, it's not
going to be that big deal. I mean, it's better than
getting snuck up by somebody and shot in the back or killed
in a car crash and, you know chopped up like hamburger meat or dying in some stupid son of
a bitch's war in some place. So I mean of all the
possibilities, it's not that bad. It's very clean. And they're very nice to you, considering. I mean, you could die of
cancer and have some big giant growth on the side of your head or your brain being tumored. But I mean, just if you go
to sleep, it's kind of nice. It's almost Snow White-ish. - And the more and more I
talked to him, I mean, it's just he has multiple mental disorders that he was at least diagnosed
with during the trial. So he refuses to take
any medicine in prison and he's locked up in a
cell most of the time. So I can only imagine, you
go a little bit crazy anyway even if you are sane to start with. - We could use a good
fascist, you know, I mean, the race does need to be
sterilized every once in a while. I mean, don't be afraid of violence. It's good for you. I mean, there's three things
that make our existence, right? Art, fucking, and killing. So art, fuck, kill. (gentle music) - A 911 call had come in
from the girl's mother stating that she had been on the phone with her daughter Faith and she could hear Faith
go, "No daddy, no, no, no daddy don't." - [Michelle] And, and
so Mary Jane of course is immediately thinking. John, or saying, "John,
why are you doing this? Why are you putting the
girls in the middle of this?" - Their mother had sent them to tell them, tell me that I was going to prison. And I found out that they had taken away my second amendment rights to own a gun. - [Michelle] And the next thing she hears is the gun, the gun, the gun being fired. And so she screams into the
phone "Run! Run, girls run!" - I were driving down the
street, going to go back to the station to fill
out an accident report. And the mother was out basically in the middle of the
street, flagging me down. She was all excited. And I asked her to try to calm down and tell me what what the problem was. And she said, "I was on the phone with my ex-husband and
he had my daughters." She said, she heard her
daughter saying the background. "Why are you putting daddy in jail?" And then she heard the daughter
saying, "No, daddy don't." - And it was obvious when I walked into the door where I could see Liberty she had tried to run. She had tried, she had
heard her mom, I think. And she had tried to
run at the front door. (sobbing) - It's weird to look back on it now cause of course I'll always
remembered them as six and nine years old when I was 15. - [Dane] We looked at where we could see if maybe he was still in the apartment, but he had evidently gone. You have to call the medical
examiner, crime scene people. And of course an
ambulance, we called them, and there was nothing they could do. - When the officers were,
they opened the door for me Liberty was right inside the front door. It was obvious that she had probably been running towards the front door. And she basically, for lack of
better term, was gunned down. It was obvious that she had
multiple gunshot wounds. She was lying in a pool of blood. Her little hair was, she had long hair and her
little hair was, it was just it was fanned out around her head. And I'll never forget that because it was in congealed
blood and her sister, Faith, she also was lying face down
in a congealed pool of blood. - He had shot him both
with a, in the torso with a a little pistol that he had. And then once they were down,
he put a Glock 9 millimeter to the back of their head
and pulled the trigger. And that was a case of
severe, severe blood loss. - He had all of this on speaker phone so she could hear all of it going on. And since he got got
on the phone, or said, "Mary 'effin Christmas, Mary Jane" to her and then left, locked
the apartment and left. - Should Elvis Wesbrook
be executed because of his mental disability? No, he did not fully
understand what he was doing when he went to the truck
and got that shotgun. He tried to get his keys to leave! They made fun of his manhood. They made fun of his
ability to satisfy his wife. Therefore she was going out on him. They threw his keys. They actually took his
keys and threw them outside where he could not find them. In his mind the only answer
was to get the shot gun. In someone else's mind you would have walked
down the street, maybe. - [Coy] So I pulled my
deer round riffle out because I carry guns with me regardless. I went back into the
house and just as soon as I went through the
door, I told Ruthy, I said, "Look, y'all need to go on and give me the keys back"
and said, "You've got my keys, I want my keys." I said, "I'm leaving. And I'm going home." And I said, "Just leave me alone." And she said, "We're gonna kill you. We're gonna kill you and
throw you in the back of your own truck and take
you off and dump you off in a bar ditch somewhere
and leave you for dead." Typically that's Ruthy, I
mean, she runs her mouth a lot. - But I'm sure he had a flashback of being bullied in school. "You're dumb. You're short, you're fat. You're ugly. You're stupid." How many insults can a human being take before they explode? All of his life he had been bullied. All of his life he had been made fun off. This is the one night that he exploded. Those people, throwing
those keys and making fun of his manhood was the
breaking point for Elvis. - And he went outside and got his gun and he thought he was
just going to scare them. But when they come back in,
they started taunting him. And so he just shot the people. - Can you, can you fault
the guy for being crazy? I mean, he's got mental problems. I mean, it's not Kelly's fault. It's not the wife's fault. It's not the guy's fault. You know, the guy's got problems. You don't just go and kill five people. And if know, if you're not insane, I mean so to say that that warrants killing him, if you're not in your
right mind, you know, you shouldn't be held to the same standard as
somebody who decides, "Hey, I'm going to go rob these people. I'm gonna shoot them in the
face or I'm going to shoot shoot them in the back,
running out," or whatever. You know, if they're trying to
get away, you know, you know leave no witnesses. It there wasn't, you know,
it wasn't like that either. - [Coy] I told her and said,
"Look, you're sitting here and talking to a guy who has
a loaded weapon in his hand. Do you really think I'm
going to let you kill me?" And she took a beer and
she threw it in my face. When she did, I shot her. She started yelling. "What'd you shoot me for?
What'd you shoot me for?" Well it was obvious why she got shot. And then right after
she was doing yelling, these two guys got up off the couch they started running toward me. And I shot them. - [Rodney] Maybe I would
feel differently if it was, if I knew that the cold-blooded killer was out there trying to,
you know, kill people and just doing it, maybe
that would be different. I don't think he intended
to do what he done. - [Coy] Rogers was headed
toward me when I shot him, the bullet went up his arm, through his armpit and out his back and it blew out his shoulder blade and a 30 alt 6 don't play around. He ran out to the yard screaming, "Call the police, call the police! He's killing everybody!" Well, I guess I was, you know,
seeing that they charged me. I didn't know what they were going to do. As far as I'm concerned,
they were after the gun. - Well, according to
the television cameraman an anti-death penalty
group filed something at the last minute, late this afternoon. So I don't know. What'd you find out? - An appeal to halt it. - Michelle knows nothing. - Oh no? So I don't know who filed what and if it's delaying the execution or not but something's off, this
doesn't usually happen. - I'll tell you what I was up in Auburn and I asked the officer, I
said, "Sir, you know, did they did they kill him?" And he says, well, he said, "I guess he got a stay because
no, they hadn't done it yet." And you know what? I felt good about it. I did. I really felt good because killing him didn't
help anything with me, man. What's another life? Death, and I kinda, I felt sorry for him. And I really wanted to cry for him. You know, I wanna cry for
my mom now it's, you know it's just was like
bringing it all back again. - [Coy] She was having sex with this dude in the bedroom and went in
there and kicked the door open cause the was locked, and she realized what
was going on, I guess. And she hit him in the chest with both of her hands
and she hit him so hard he bounced up off of her onto his feet at the end of the bed. And then she tried to roll off the bed. And as she was rolling
to get on the floor, I shot across the bed at him. And of course that's when she got hit in the hand with the slug. I mean, I wasn't aiming at her and I didn't intentionally killer. They just, you know, you
can't control bullets what they do. (gentle music) - I worked a lot of scenes in my career. I've worked a lot of
homicides and you know, there's just some that you won't forget. There's probably a handful
that I won't ever forget. And they, these little
girls will be one of them. It's extremely upsetting. And I felt that I owed them because they had no voice any longer to stay with them until we
moved them from the loft. And my shift was over at 11. And I remember calling
my supervisor and saying, "Can I work over time?" So that I am with them
from the time I arrive till the time we get them to the back door of the medical examiner's
office, because I didn't want, I didn't want them to be alone. So I did. And I think, I think I got home at 3:00 AM that night because I just didn't want them to be alone. - But I didn't sleep that night. And for two more nights, I didn't sleep. Just such a scene that
you don't know what to trying to cope with it some kind of way and I don't think even
somebody who's a psychiatrist or psychologist could
deal with it, you know. - You have to put them in a body bag and it's just, it was just sad. They were little, little bitty girls. So, it's a, you know you don't think it bothers
you because you do your job. And, and I didn't cry at the scene and I don't think I
even cried when I typed but I cried later when I think about them. - Oh, how did Faith and Liberty die? They say they died of gunshot wounds. - [Interviewer] There's nothing about that that you remember? - Not particularly, no. - [Michelle] I think it
was the police called us and said that they had found him but he had gone and picked up
a girlfriend right after that. And they went next door to a tattoo parlor and had two roses in barbed wire tattooed on his arm for Faith and Liberty. - The night that I was
arrested, I had the roses. - [Interviewer] Did they
have any significance? - Yeah, I love roses. - Probably the easiest
thing would have been if he killed Faith and
Liberty and then himself, but that's not my dad. I mean, that, I don't think a narcissist
thinks that way. They're not going to hurt themselves. (gentle music) - I'm a former trial lawyer and it's this work is hard for me in that respect because I see how these
lawyers botch these cases and how they don't care and how they just don't
know what they're doing. And so I can't guarantee that, you know that I would have won it but obviously his guilt
was beyond question but I think we could have avoided the death penalty on his case. I think we could've
gotten a jury to give life because the guy was basically, this is a silly thing to
say, but he was harmless. He really was, you know, I mean, his parents had to support and I mean, he held down menial jobs, security guard, nothing that required any, you know, any intellectual capacity. So, but that was not
brought in front of a jury. It took me back when I
started practicing down there is just the mean
spiritedness of the whole system. I mean, they really want to kill people. It's not a question of
doing justice, you know? I mean the courts, you know, all the way up all the way
through it, it's breathtaking. So I've been doing this 13 years now. And finally, I guess about
a year and a half ago I finally got one person off death row that would never get me to the pros with a batting average
like that, you know? - Yes. I can totally
understand how he snapped because I think I would
have done the same thing. If I was pushed to the
levels that he was pushed to. I think I would've done it too. - Yep. Death penalty opponent Ward Larkin introduced and filed
an appeal hours before- - Wesbrook's punishment. - Oh. But the Texas court of
criminal appeals rejected it. - It was rejected. - Oh my God. - [Woman] What happened? - Ward Larkin filed an appeal. Hey Dennis! Ward filed an appeal! - You know, I've forgiven
the guy, okay. I have. I, you know, I'm not going to
take that to my grave with me like my family did. I'll tell you what, it tore them up. I mean it ripped them apart. My poor mom, you know. I really don't even talk
about it because that's that's who it really hurt, you know? And it killed her man. And you know what? She took that to the grave with her. And not only that she had to see another kid
die and another kid died. And I'm just thankful that she's not alive to see me here now. - From my conversation with Wesbrook he's ready to go. He acknowledges that it's going to happen. And then he says, he's had
18 years to prepare for this. So he says, I think he told me that he was optimistic that
they are going to kill them. - [Coy] Well, I wanna tell everybody out there that Elvis ain't dead yet. (thunder crashes) - Coy Wesbrook was executed this evening about two hours later
than he could have been because there was a late appeal filed by a death penalty activist in Houston. The highest Texas courts
rejected the appeal, said it was improper for it to be filed. - You know, one of the thing
is he got a 90 minute reprieve. Could you think of anything more horrible than taking, strapping you down, and, "Oh, well, wait a minute. We're going to hold off on this. Maybe, maybe they're going
to look at your appeal. Maybe you don't deserve
the death penalty." And then you sat there for 90 minute. "Oh yeah. Sorry guy. It didn't work out for you. We are you going to go
ahead and kill you now." - What did I do on the execution day? I went and visit him for the last day. I went up there and I ate
with him, snacks and food. And we just talked about things that we needed to get out of the way and to make sure everything
that was fine was fine. And that I knew that he loved me. And then I drove to Huntsville
and I sat at this church and waited till it was over. And I cried that day. And it was really an emotional day for me. - We walked into the death chamber. Wesbrook was strapped down to the gurney. He looked at the folks who were coming in. The warden took a step and
looked down at Wesbrook asked him if he had anything
to say, Wesbrook said he did. And then he apologized profusely for for what had happened with the killings. Said he wished he could
bring the people back. And also said, he wished that things could have turned out differently. And he expressed love to his daughter and to what he said were
all of his supporters, and he took two deep breaths. There were about four snores
and then all movement stopped. We stood there for, oh, nearly 15 minutes until a physician walked
in and examined him and pronounced him dead
at 8:04 PM, local time. There was then a sheet
pulled up over Wesbrook and we turned and filed out. - Well, nobody wins. Do they? I mean, can you say it's better now? Anything's better? I mean, if you're gonna, I promise you if you want to punish somebody make them wake up every morning and know that they're
not going to go anywhere except over there to get
them some mushy carrots. You know, some mystery meat. I mean, for the next 14 years of my life, if the courts doesn't do anything I'm suffering misery and
be like dying every day when I wake up. Every day, I'm going to die. I'm the first thing I'm gonna
do is wake up in the morning. My stomach's going to turn, another day. (gentle music) - And the funeral was, oh
God, the funeral was so hard. I mean, as you might
imagine with something so tragic to happen though,
the worst part was that someone's sang the song,
"Jesus Loves Me, This I Know" You could hardly hear the
person singing the song over the sobs from
everyone in that church. At the funeral she basically
almost laid down on the coffins the girl's coffins and said,
it's the last thing she did. She'd see that justice was done. And in her mind the death penalty would be the ultimate
justice for what he did. And so I think that's
how she'd feel right now. - Yeah. The charge is capital murder and for my two daughters,
Faith and Liberty in 2001. - I was called to testify
for the evidentiary hearing. The pictures that were
introduced, some were mine, and some were from the
Dallas police departments. What was hard to sit through was how it affected the jury, how
it affected the judge. And she did remain impartial but you know, nobody in that
room could remain unaffected. - We didn't see the damage
till we went to trial and they showed the crime scene pictures and still didn't see them,
you know, 15 years later. - When I was on the stand,
I did not look at him often. He was unaffected by it. He did not appear to be really
concerned about anything but maybe himself. - I always said, if I ever
sit and looked at the devil I was sitting across the
table from him, probably 10 feet away, you know and still remember those eyes
and that look and that stare. - The death penalty part is obviously hard for me to deal with. Cause yes, Mary Jean has always been happy that that was the sentence he got. That that was how Faith and
Liberty would get justice. - The reason that he
killed the girls, you know it was revenge to the
mom against his ex-wife. And I think he wanted to
take them away and make her suffer as much as he
could make her suffer. And of course a mother
would suffer much more from the loss of her children then she would suffer from
the loss of her own life. And so he did the most heinous and most unimaginable
thing he could do to her and took her children away. - I hate what he did, but that's my dad. And he wasn't a great
dad all the time to me. But for the most part,
when he, I was with him he was a great dad. So it's hard for me to just
shut it all off and be like, "I don't want anything to do with you." - Yes, I, when Christie comes to see me I feel very badly that she had to have all the emotional distress that, that entailed her losing her sisters and what that must have been for her at I think 15 years old. Yeah. I regret that a great
deal that that affected her life the way it did. But I imagine that her stepmother trying to have me killed and have me put in prison falsely would have also detrimentally
affected her life too. - In a very unique situation. And I think for the past 15 years, part of why it was so hard for me was that there was nobody to talk to that's had any frame of reference to what I was going through. - Anything I'd like to say Christie if I didn't see her again? Well that obviously that
I love her very much and that she means the world to me. I wish things would have been different. - I am so glad that it happened this way. That Faith and Liberty aren't here to go through the pain that I'm going through. (gentle music) - Mr. Wesbrook was executed last night. I spoke with him on the
phone yesterday afternoon. And in my mailbox today,
I have received a letter which I'll open. There's a lot here, guys. This is a letter from Mr. Wesbrook with what he calls a final question where someone has told him that if his name is spelled in
capital letters on the indictment that it's a corporation. And so that maybe the indictment that that charged him with the
five homicides was false. And it might be a last ditch
effort, which you hear a lot. I mean, and you can understand any and you know, anything
that even creates a glimmer of hope, you know, will generate a letter. This line is... Hurts. "I'll be dead by the time you get this." It's a great line of work boys. Great line of work. - [Sunny] Having my dad executed is very, it's very raw. It's very raw moments in my life that I wished that I'd
never had to endure. - [Interviewer] Kelly Hazlip,
was one of the victims, I spoke to his brother
and his brother said, "Oh, I don't think I don't think that your dad
should, or I don't think Coy Wesbrook should have
got the death penalty." How does that make you feel? - That makes me feel a lot better. It makes me feel great that somebody one of the victims thought that my dad shouldn't have
gotten the death penalty. - And that Sunny doesn't
understand what's going on. She knows her father was killed. She knows he was executed. And she doesn't understand why
they did this to her daddy. She knows what happened But you know she wants to sit around and
say, "Why did it happen, Pat?" And you have no answer. I mean, you have lots of answers but you don't have a good concrete answer for her that she would ever understand. - What do I miss the most about my dad? Getting to touch him, hugging him, because throughout this whole period I've never got to touch my dad. The only time I got to touch him is at the visitation, the funeral. So that's really hard. Yes. I struggle every single
day not having my dad around. (gentle music) - I mean, this has been
a miserable 15 years. I've always, now, once it
happens, it's done this. It's the final chapter of the story. Maybe I can finally move on and not be their girl
whose dad is on death row. - Oh, have I thought
about my last statement? Yeah, I've run it, I've run a couple of
different ones by, you know I thought of, "Soylent Green is people" you know and then bring an
image of Charlton Heston in and say, "Hang on to your
second amendment rights, vote for Trump." You know, say something derogatory about my poor ex-wife, tell
my daughter I love her, but I'm not having any witnesses there so I'm not really concerned about it. You know, there's going to be
a couple of little cocksuckers from the DA's office who
I could give a shit about. You know, they enjoy that because they have small
penises and smaller egos. So watching somebody else be killed because they're not man
enough to do it themselves. What do I care about
those little piss ants? - Like when the anniversary
of their deaths would come nothing really ever felt finished. Like I always feel like other people who have a loved one who's died their anniversary of
their death comes around and they grieve for them. And then move on. I can grieve for Faith and Liberty and then my dad's still in prison. So I just feel like now I
finally get to wrap it all up. I hope. I mean, I have no idea. All I can do is hope that I don't, I mean, I don't know if come March 31st I'll wake up and be like,
"Oh, it's a new day." But I do think that I will definitely feel
better once it happens. I think. Maybe not immediately. Maybe it'll take me a little while. - What are my feelings when
the warden will come get me and take me to the gurney at the Huntsville execution chamber? So I would imagine there'd
be a little bit of anxiety but other than that, it probably a trip. I mean, how many people get to do that? It'll be odd, but a scary? I don't think. I mean, what would be to be scared of? You know what's going to happen. Except if they call the
last minute and say, "No, don't do it." And then you're like, "Oh, fuck. I gotta do this all over again." Cause I've known guys
who've done that four or five times and they just
never are the same afterwards. (phone ringing) Ms. Wyatt, they done. - When I found out he got the stay, It... I mean, it still is. It's one of those... I can remember that moment as vividly as finding out that Faith and Liberty had died. - Now the kinds of cases where they have held the person to be incompetent to be executed. There've been very few, first
of all, and the person has, for example had their
"last meal" in their cell and they come to get the person to walk what's commonly referred
to as the green mile to the execution chamber. And the person would say to the guards, "Can you hold my food
for me till I get back?" Obviously not understanding
where he was about to go. That's the level of
incompetency that I've seen. I honestly don't know that
there is even anyone ever anywhere that's had their six
and nine-year-old daughter killed while they listened on the phone. You try to move on, you
try to have another life and hanging over your
head the whole time is, "I have to deal with the murderer of my children still with
that whole upheaval." And then it doesn't happen. - I do feel like the stay did rob me of a new beginning. Today being the 15th anniversary. A month ago I thought I was going to get to this day and it feel totally different than the past 14 had felt. That I was going to have
this sense of closure and kind of all of the pain would have died with my dad almost. And now today came and I don't know what to feel. Everything I thought I was
gonna feel doesn't exist yet because now I'm just thinking, "Oh great, when that a new date is set, I get to relive this all again." - [Warden] Thomas, this is Simon here from the United Kingdom. Thomas, Simon. Right? I got your time starting. I got you started at 12:45,
I'll give 10 till five and then I'll rap. - [Interviewer] Perfect. Okay. Okay. We're good. Yep. Sound, could do a sound check? - Oh yeah, I believe that I did not kill my daughters in the fact that they weren't
my biological daughters. They were my legal daughters,
I guess is the distinction. - [Interviewer] So you
you think the reason why you killed your two daughters
was because you were drugged? - I think so. If I did it at all. And that is again, I mean, I think I didn't, but you know
obviously they'll convince me and anybody else that I did but if I'm not aware of it. Do I think I'm insane? And I would say no, I don't think so. But then that would be catch 22. I mean, if I did think I was insane then I would probably
not be insane, right? So I think that's how it works. At least Joseph Heller's version. I don't get to react
with very many people. You can see why, probably. (gentle music) - [Reporter] Tonight John
Battaglia was executed. When the warden asked if he
had a last statement he said, "No. Well, hi, Mary Jean.
I'll see y'all later. Go ahead, please." It was at that point that a lethal dose of
pentobarbital was administered. Battaglia lost consciousness
and was pronounced deceased 22 minutes later.
