A serial killer who struggled to hasten his own death – and was forced to prove he wasn’t out of his mind – was put to death today in New England’s first execution in 45 years.

Nearly a decade after the Oklahoma City bombing, a man was found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out what was then the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil.

A man convicted of killing his former wife’s father was put to death moments after he lashed out in his final statement at an appeals courts that failed to spare him.