An ‘excruciating’ execution was the result of a man who had been on death row since 2004 making a cruel’mistake’ with his final supper.
In 1998, Wesley Ira Purkey was convicted of raping and killing 16-year-old Jennifer Long.On January 22 of that year, the victim was last spotted at East High
School in Kansas City, Missouri, as worries increased after the teenager vanished from the classroom.
Before he drove her back to his house, Purkey had enticed Long into his car, where he allegedly fatally stabbed her and used a chainsaw to cut her body to pieces.
The murderer allegedly dumped her remains in a septic pond near Clearwater, Kansas, after burning her body in a fireplace.
However, the teen’s remains have not yet been located.Purkey also used a claw hammer to beat 80-year-old Mary Bales to death.
However, when neighbors witnessed him trying to burn her body, justice was done.Before being convicted of the double murder and sent to
