Delbert Boyd Teague Jr., 37, described by prosecutors at his murder trial as a "1-man slaughterhouse" killed Kevin Allen in 1985. Allen, 21, was 1 of 3 men shot in the head with a .22-caliber pistol at Inspiration Point, a scenic turnout.

As part of the same incident, a woman was abducted and driven hundreds of miles from Texas to Louisiana. She was repeatedly raped. The 2 other men shot in the head survived.

Asked if he had any final statement, Teague said, "No."

In a prepared statement released after the execution, Teague said, "I have come here today to die, not make speeches. Today is a good day for dying."

He concluded with the Latin Phrase, "Est sulares oth mithas," which prison officials translated as, "My honor is my life."

Teague was pronounced dead at 6:24 p.m., 7 minutes after a dose of lethal drugs was released into his arms.

1 of the 2 needles in the execution procedure entered near a tatoo of the Grim Reaper on Teague's right arm.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected an appeal in his case, and there were no last-minute attempts to halt the execution.

"It's not one of the things you take great joy in," Wes Ball, 1 of the prosecutors who tried Teague, said of the punishment. "But there wasn't anything about his case that I thought I would ever have any regrets about the outcome. It was appropriate.

Teague, who was from the Houston area, had an extensive criminal record.

In May 1982, he pleaded no contest in the shooting death of a Houston man and was sentenced to 2 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter.

He also got 5 years for forgery and weapons possession convictions but was paroled 13 months later. As a juvenile, he was imprisoned for coaxing a homeless person into his car, then pushing the man out while driving on a Houston freeway. He also had an arrest for aggravated robbery.

Court records show Teague and an accomplice, Robin Partine, of Arlington, were fleeing the Tarrant County park after abducting the 19-year-old woman and pistol whipping, robbing and tying up her 23-year-old boyfriend, Thomas Cox. As Teague and Partine were driving away in a stolen truck, Allen and 2 friends were driving into the area.

Cox had managed to free himself and ran to Allen for help. Teague suddenly reappeared and opened fire, hitting the 3 men in the truck. Allen died of his wounds. 1 of the other 2 suffered permanent brain damage. The 3rd wounded man recovered and testified at Teague's trial.

"These young men happened to be at the wrong place at the terribly wrong time," Scott Wisch, a former Tarrant County assistant district attorney who also prosecuted Teague, said. "Teague perceived them as interfering with the abduction."

The woman was driven to Houston, then Beaumont and into Louisiana, where at a truck stop she managed to leave a note in a rest room appealing for help. An employee there found the message and notified sheriff's deputies, who arrested Teague and Partine in Iberville Parish after a 100-mph chase. The abducted woman also testified at Teague's trial.

2 months before the Allen slaying, Teague and Partine, also an ex- convict, were arrested in Oklahoma for burglary of a bowling alley. They were using false identities, however, and were allowed to post bond.

Partine, now 41, is serving a life term for aggravated sexual assault. He had 2 previous convictions in Indiana where he was released from parole supervision in 1982 after serving less than 3 years of a 14-year sentence.

Delbert Teague and his cohort, Robin Partine, robbed Donna Irwin and her date, Tommie Cox, late at night at a scenic area overlooking Lake Worth in Tarrant County.

After Teague bound Cox with a rope and left him lying face down on the ground, Teague and Partine kidnapped Irwin and left the scene in a truck driven by Teague. As they left the area, they passed three young men in a four-wheel drive vehicle going the other way in the direction where Cox had been left.

Teague turned the truck around and began to follow the four-wheel drive vehicle. Cox had managed to set himself free, and he approached the four-wheel drive vehicle on foot as it drove toward him. When the four-wheel drive vehicle stopped, Cox told its occupants about what had happened and asked for help.

Teague suddenly appeared on foot, shot each occupant in the four-wheel drive vehicle at least once in the head, and took their wallets. Cox escaped uninjured. One of the occupants of the four-wheel drive vehicle, Kevin Allen, 21, died from his injuries and another suffered permanent brain damage. The other occupant, James Bell, recovered from his wounds and testified at Teague's trial.

After the shootings, Teague and Partine left the scene in their truck with Irwin. Later that night, they took turns sexually assaulting her. Teague and Partine were eventually arrested in Louisiana after Irwin left a note in a women's restroom at a gas station. Irwin also testified at Teague's trial.