09 February 2006 :

Robert Neville, a man who abducted a young woman while she rode her bicycle to work, then shot and killed her in a field near Dallas, was executed by lethal injection. Neville, 31, was the third person this year and the 358th person since 1982 to be executed in Texas, the nation's leading death penalty state.
Neville and accomplice Michael Hall knew Amy Robinson, 19, from work at a local supermarket and on February 15, 1998 offered her a ride when they saw her on her bicycle going to her job.
Instead of taking her to work, they went to a remote area and shot her to death.
They told police they were white supremacists who wanted to kill blacks, but Robinson was not black. She was small for her age and mentally impaired because of a genetic disorder.
Hall, 26, has also been sentenced to die and is awaiting execution.
In a final statement, Neville apologized for the crime while strapped to a gurney in the death chamber at the state prison in downtown Huntsville.
"I hope you can find it in yourselves to forgive me and I hope all this here will kind of settle your pain," Neville said to execution witnesses who included members of Robinson's family.
"And I just want you to know I am very sorry for what I have done."