Larry Allen Hayes (November 23, 1948 – September 10, 2003)[1] was an American spree killer who was executed in Texas for the murders of two women in Montgomery County.
[1] He grew up in Howell County and attended Southwest Missouri State University for a year and a half.
Hayes reloaded his gun, kissed his mother, and then left the home in his wife's truck.
Wanting another vehicle, Hayes entered the store and encountered the clerk, 18-year-old Rosalyn Ann Robinson, who was black.
[4] A few hours later, Hayes was spotted by two Polk County police officers at a truck stop in Goodrich.
[10] Prior to this, the last time a white person was executed in Texas for killing a black person was in 1854, when James Wilson was executed for killing a white man's slave, meaning the punishment was essentially for a property crime.
[11] In June 2011, white death row inmate Lee Taylor was executed for the 1999 murder of a black prisoner.
While some news agencies labeled Taylor's execution as the second time in Texas state history that a white person was executed for killing a black person, Dow claimed it should be labeled as the first, because there were no other white victims in the Taylor case.