'Keep making America great', killer tells Trump before execution

Summary

• ‘Casanova Killer’ Glen Rogers tells US President Donald Trump to ‘Keep making America great’ just before his execution.

• Witnesses in his execution say they were confused by the statement.

With his final breath before execution, Glen Rogers  - known as the “Casanova Killer” - declared: “President Trump, keep making America great.”

According to news reports, the 62-year-old suspected serial killer, who had been on death row in Florida, uttered the words just before receiving a lethal injection.

Rogers was executed for the 1995 murder of Tina Marie Cribbs, a 34-year-old mother of two whom he had met at a bar. He added that he was “ready to go”.

“In his final statement, Rogers also thanked his wife, who visited him earlier in the day at the prison, according to visitor logs. He also somewhat cryptically said that ‘in the near future, your questions will be answered’ without going into detail,” reported NBC.

According to the report, the lethal injection began after his message to Trump, and he lay quietly through the procedure.

‘What the hell?’

Randy Roberson, whose mother, Andy Lou Jiles Sutton, was one of Rogers’ victims, witnessed the execution and said the comment about Trump seemed to confuse people in the room.

“I was like, ‘Where did that even come from?’” he said.

His wife, Amy Roberson - also a witness to the execution - said she thought: “What the hell?”

Rogers had also been sentenced to death in California for the 1995 strangulation of Sandra Gallagher, a mother of three he had met at a bar in Van Nuys, California.

That murder occurred just weeks before the killing of Cribbs. He was apprehended in Kentucky following a high-speed chase, caught driving Cribbs’ car shortly after her death.

Rogers was also suspected of several other murders across the country, although he had not been convicted of those crimes.

At one point, he claimed responsibility for killing around 70 people - a statement he later retracted.

His life and crimes were the subject of multiple documentaries, including the 2012 film “My Brother the Serial Killer”, which featured his brother Clay and a criminal profiler who had maintained extensive correspondence with Rogers.

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