Okla. inmate executed for fatal stabbing in 1994

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Okla. inmate executed for fatal stabbing in 1994 Okla. inmate put to death for fatal stabbing during 1994 fight; 1st US execution this year By The Associated Press

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) ' An Oklahoma inmate has been put to death for killing a man during a knife fight nearly two decades ago, marking the nation's first execution this year.

Forty-nine-year-old Gary Roland Welch was given a lethal injection at 6:10 p.m. Thursday at the state penitentiary in McAlester for the fatal stabbing of 35-year-old Robert Hardcastle in Miami, Okla.

Nearly three weeks ago, Welch attempted suicide by slitting his throat with a smuggled shaving razor. Prison officials and Welch's court-appointed attorney insisted he was sane and understood his fate.

Welch continued to maintain that he only killed Hardcastle in self-defense.

Welch remained defiant at a hearing last month before the state Pardon and Parole Board, telling the board he wasn't "here today crying, begging or sniveling for my life."

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