1997: Ricky Lee Green
October 8th, 2008 Headsman
On this date in 1997, serial killer Ricky Lee Green died by lethal injection in Texas.
The radiator repairman was executed specifically for castrating and stabbing to death Steven Fefferman in 1986, but he killed at least three other people — two women and a 16-year-old boy — and investigators associated his m.o. with up to eight other unsolved murders. (Green also copped to another murder after his conviction, possibly to help another man, William Chappell, avoid execution. It didn’t work; Chappell was executed for that crime in 2002.)
“They all deserved it. They were kind of the dregs of society.”
“A Jekyll and Hyde thing” is how Green’s true-crime biographer characterized him — a lifetime of physical and sexual abuse and a drug habit dating to childhood had seriously warped the dude.
And the most famous serial killer from tiny Boyd, Texas might’ve kept getting away with it if wasn’t for his darn estranged wife.
Someone sure was grateful for Sharon Dollar Green’s help: even though she’d participated in some of the murders, she shopped hubby and skated with ten years’ probation as more Green’s victim than his accomplice.
Green went the popular “death row conversion” route while awaiting the inevitable, or so — atheists in foxholes and all — maintained his last statement.
I want to thank the Lord for giving me this opportunity to get to know Him. He has shown me a lot and He has changed me in the past two months.
I have been in prison 8 1/2 years and on death row for 7, and I have not gotten into any trouble. I feel like I am not a threat to society anymore. I feel like my punishment is over, but my friends are now being punished.
I thank the Lord for all He has done for me.
I do want to tell the …
But the lethal cocktail had begun, and the sentiment went to the grave with Ricky Lee Green.
Possibly Related Executions
- 1994: John Wayne Gacy, scary clown
- 1998: Gerald Eugene Stano, misogynist psychopath
- 1993: Ruben Cantu, an innocent child?
Entry Filed under: 20th Century, Capital Punishment, Common Criminals, Crime, Death Penalty, Execution, Lethal Injection, Murder, Serial Killers, Sex, Texas, USA
Tags: 1997, boyd, october 8, ricky lee green, sharon dollar, sharon dollar green, william chappell
9 Comments Add your own
1. Fiz (UK) | October 8th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Funny how there are no atheists in prison, don’t you think?
2. Headsman | October 8th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I wouldn’t want to judge the secrets of another’s heart without some good polling data.
What about nihilists?
3. Fiz (UK) | October 8th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
There is that! Who was it who was hanged in Russia in a plot against Tsar Alexander III , and the rope broke, and as he was finally hanged the victim said sadly,” Stupid country, where they do not know how to hang”?
4. callie | October 14th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Lol- Fiz, that is funny- sorry plenty of Atheists in prison- I visit there often…when was the last time you stopped by?
5. bear | December 18th, 2008 at 9:06 am
my best friend was kin to this guy if u read the book bloodrush u will c the names dona and melvin whose nickname is mouse… ive met dona and mouse and they both could give me a lil more info bout it… its a wonderful and frightening story! Id give it a ten
6. son of the murderd | January 8th, 2009 at 3:16 am
life is tourmented i was born from rape my mother sandra baley waas raped by six guys thuse i was born from hell . it drives me crazy every day to think some fucker is profiting from her murder and their story my given name was allen dewayne baley no longer though . her brest were cut from her chest and she was stabbed 36 times i hope you all fucking burn in hell or i can take you there . my heart filled with hate my mind destroyed . fuck you and fuck the world . i was put up for adoption b 4 her murder therefor i was not mentiond
7. ShanghaiJohnnyP | January 8th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
Sorry,But My Philosophy Concerning Most of the Inmates On Death Row Comes From William Holden in”The Wild Bunch”:”IF THEY MOVE…KILL EM’!!”.
8. son of the murderd | January 9th, 2009 at 12:24 am
sry about bad typeing anger clouds judgment .
9. BAmaJAmasez | March 14th, 2009 at 10:29 am
The Romans killed Jesus…he did’nt do anything! Now we allow those who deserve to die to just sit and sit and sit and sit…eat and eat and eat and eat….watch television(cable)get a degree,get health care to prolong their life to just keep sitting and eating and watching cable TV and studing for their degrees.LIVING BETTER THAN THE HOMELESS!! I say this is wrong…..don’t you?
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