• Classification: Murderer

• Characteristics: Revenge

• Number of victims: 3

• Date of murders: August 29, 1989

• Date of arrest: Same day

• Date of birth: September 9, 1948

• Date of execution: February 28, 2019

• Victims profile: His estranged wife's parents, Robert and Zelda Vicha, and her brother, Waco police Sgt. Bobby Vicha

• Method of murder: Shooting

• Location: McLennan County, Texas, USA

• Status: Sentenced to death on June 14, 1990. Death sentence overturned in 2007¹

Death row killer's bizarre last words as he became oldest man to be executed in Texas

• Convicted killer Billie Wayne Coble was 70-years-old when he was convicted of killing his wife's family 30 years ago and became the oldest man to be executed in Texas.

• The coffin-dodger on Death Row had a bizarre final message for the world when he was executed on February 28, 2019.

• Billie Wayne Coble, 70, was convicted of murdering his estranged wife's parents Robert and Zelda Vicha, and her brother, John "Bobby" Vicha, who was a police sergeant in 1989.

• Coble's wife had sought a divorce at the time when he ambushed the three victims and shot them at their home in Axtell, a small community 100 miles north of the state capital, Austin.

• The killer then kidnapped his estranged wife and drove off with her sparking a police chase.

• During the absolutely chaotic drive, he stabbed his wife with a knife before eventually crashing into a parked car and was arrested. His wife survived.

• The Vietnam war veteran was sentenced to death and executed hours after the US Supreme Court denied a petition seeking a reprieve on grounds he received inadequate defense at his trial.

• However, the coffin-dodger, who became the oldest man to ever be executed in Texas, had a few odd words to say before he died from lethal injection at the state death chamber in Huntsville, Texas at 6.24pm CST (00.24 GMT).

• According to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, his last words were: "That will be five dollars. Take care."

• Reports claim the coffin-dodger has never shown any remorse for the killings and has been described as having a "heart full of scorpions".

• Just eight days before he was executed Coble was interviewed by Susanna Reid where he seemed pretty relaxed about his impending doom.

• Coble said: "Death is a death. A person said one time 'that's a horrible way of dying'. I said 'what is a good way’.

• "Who is not going to leave this world? Aren't we all? It depends on how long a person has already lived.

• "The longer you've lived, the easier it is to accept death."²

VIDEO: Prisoner's Final Death Row Interview Before Execution | Our Life: https://youtu.be/ykqzGEAZTb8

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