'It was the devil's work': Georgia executes 'mentally ill' man who killed two college students in 1995

A 'senseless' killer who shot dead two university students in 1995 was executed in the United States last night despite claims he was mentally ill. Andrew Allen Cook, an inmate in the U.S. state of Georgia, apologised to his victims' families as he was injected with the sedative pentobarbital. He shot Mercer University students Grant Patrick Hendrickson, 22, and Michele Lee Cartagena, 19, several times as they sat in a car in Lake Juliette, around 75 miles from Atalanta. Cook's lawyers had appealed the death sentence, arguing that the 38-year-old inmate, who was being treated for depression at the time of his death, was mentally ill. He was pronounced dead at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison at 11.22pm, around 14 minutes after he was injected.

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As he was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber he used his last words to say: 'I'm sorry. I'm not going to ask you to forgive me. I can't even do it myself.'

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