A man who was executed for killing his live-in girlfriend and her three children has said 'death is not the enemy' in his final statement.
Raheem Taylor, 58, was put to death by lethal injection around midnight GMT on Wednesday at Bonne Terre state prison in Missouri, United States.
The third death row inmate to be put to death at the prison since November, his execution was also the nation's fifth so far this year following one in Missouri, two in Texas and one in Oklahoma. All were by lethal injection.
