Richard Fairchild was executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. He had been on death row for nearly 30 years after he was convicted of killing and torturing his girlfriend’s three-year-old son in 1993
A man has been executed on his birthday for torturing and killing his girlfriend’s three-year-old son.
Richard Stephen Fairchild, 63, was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester after he killed young Adam Broomhall in 1993.
The ex-marine died at 10.24am after an appeal for clemency was rejected last month.
The board voted four to one against the request and prosecutors from the Oklahoma attorney general’s office said “the method of Adam’s murder can only be described as torture”.