A guy tops himself on the day he was due to be executed.
The suicide came about 15 hours before Johnson was to receive lethal injection for the 1995 shooting death of her husband Jeff Wetterman, 27, at the family-run convenience store in Lorena, about 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of Waco.
McLean had planned to be among those watch Johnson die Thursday evening and found some solace in knowing he knew she’d be present in the death chamber.
“We anticipated the trip for 11 years,” she said. “I didn’t want him to think that we were going to forget about this. It was still a very big deal to us. I was determined to watch him die.
McLean said two prison officials came to her home Thursday to offer an apology.
