Tommy Lynn Sells, a serial killer convicted in the 1999 murder of a Lexington girl, was executed in Texas Thursday.
Nearly 15 years have passed since Anna Walker’s then 13-year-old granddaughter Haley McHone was abducted, raped and murdered in a Lexington park by Sells.
“He didn’t even bury her. He just put her under brush in a ditch, never covered her or nothing,” Walker said.
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Sells was later arrested for a similar crime in Texas and admitted to several other murders around the country, including McHone’s. He was sentenced to death.
“I kept thinking he should be killed right now,” Walker said. “He should already be dead.”
Walker and Haley’s sister, Sarah, still look through old newspaper clipping and think about Haley as they await closure.
This week, they said, it finally came.
Sells lost his final appeal, hoping to delay his death sentence based on an argument that there were too many unknowns associated with the lethal drug. But the court disagreed and Sells was put to death.
“Well, this is the closer we’ve been waiting for all these years,” Walker said. “If they burn you in Hell, I believe he’ll burn eternally.”
Sells declined to make final remarks before his death. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. central time Thursday.
