For killing a policeman, Hurbie Franklin Fairris Jr., a pasty-faced 22-year-old with a ducktail haircut, was electrocuted last week at the McAlester, Okla. State Penitentiary. Hurbie had an interesting history. When he was 16 months old, an uncle was electrocuted in Texas for the murder of a prison guard. A few years later Hurbie's mother, who separated from his father when Hurbie was very small, shot her second husband to death. She got out of that one on self-defense, but when she killed her third husband, she drew a five-year jail term....
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