A convicted murderer from Texas shared his final words with the families of his victims shortly before his execution. On Wednesday, January 28, Charles Victor Thompson - who was sentenced to death in connection with the April 1998 deaths of his former girlfriend Glenda Hayslip and her then-boyfriend, Darren Cain - died by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. Just before his death, he asked for the families of his victims for forgiveness, before adding that his hope was that they could "begin to heal and move past this.