Summary of Offense: Convicted and sentenced to death for the March 12, 1992 rape and murder of his 12-year-old stepdaughter.
On the morning of May 22, 1993, Janet McGinn, Ricky Nolen McGinn's wife, left her home in Brownwood, Texas for a trip to Arlington. She left her 12-year-old daughter, Stephanie Flanary, in the care of McGinn.
McGinn and Stephanie spent the day alone together. Stephanie was sexually assaulted by McGinn and then beaten in the head with the blunt side of an ax. She died of multiple head injuries and a fractured skull. Her battered body was found three days later in a culvert along a farm-to-market road near McGinn's residence in Brown County.
McGinn was granted a last-minute 30-day reprieve by Governor Bush to obtain DNA testing. Unfortunately for McGinn, the results of the DNA tests only confirmed his guilt.
Victim: Stephanie Flanary
Manner of execution: Lethal injection
Time of Death: 6:22 p.m.
Last Meal: Chicken fried steak with white gravy, french fries with white gravy, lots of salt and pepper, and sweet ice tea
Final Statement: "Tell everybody I said hi, that I love them, and I will see them on the other side, OK? And now I just pray that if there is anything against me that God takes it home. I don't want nobody to be mad at nobody. I don't want nobody to be bitter. Keep clean hearts and I will see y'all on the other side."
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