ATLANTA, July 21 (UPI) -- A Georgia man was put to death Thursday for killing his parents and teenage sister, with the lethal injection recorded on videotape.
Andrew Grant DeYoung died quietly, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. He was pronounced dead less than 15 minutes after receiving the first injection and showed no signs of distress or pain.
The execution was the second in Georgia using a new drug cocktail. Lawyers for a man on death row requested the videotaping because they said the first man to be put to death under the new procedure showed some signs of distress.
The legal fight delayed DeYoung's execution for 24 hours.
DeYoung was a 19-year-old student at Kennesaw State University in 1993 when he decided to kill his family, allegedly because he planned to use an inheritance for a business deal. A brother, then 16, managed to get away but his parents and 14-year-old sister were stabbed to death.
"I'm sorry for everyone I've hurt," he said as his last words.
A court that allowed the videotaping ordered the tape sealed and not released to the public. The taping was believed to be the first ever of a lethal injection.
