PARCHMAN, MISS. — A former butcher convicted of dismembering a man told prison officials just hours before his scheduled execution Wednesday that he has made peace with God and is remorseful for his crimes.Gary Carl Simmons Jr. was to be executed at 6 p.m. CDT for the August 1996 killing of Jeffery Wolfe, whose body was found in pieces in a Jackson County bayou. Simmons also was convicted of kidnapping and raping Wolfe’s friend and sentenced to life on those charges.Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps said during a news conference at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman that Simmons was somber and not talkative.”He said he made peace with God and that he was remorseful,” Epps said.
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