Robert Charles Comer was convicted and sentenced to death by lethal injection

Lethal injection

Lethal injection is the practice of injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject. The main application for this procedure is capital punishment, but the term may also be applied in a broad sense to euthanasia and suicide...

 by the state of Arizona

Arizona

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 in 1988 for the murder of his neighbors, Larry Pritchard and Tracy Andrews, in 1987.

In 2000, Comer waived his right to appeal, but through various legal delays and disputes in the court system, the appeals were not stopped until early 2007, seven years later. After that, it was not long until the death sentence was carried out.

Comer's last words were "Go Raiders", a reference to the Oakland Raiders

Oakland Raiders

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 of the NFL

National Football League

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Sources

• Information for Inmate 067151 COMER Arizona Department of Corrections. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
• Robert Charles Comer The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
• Prior to execution, inmate's mind on Raiders. Fox Sports (2007-05-23). Retrieved on 2007-11-05.