Heather Good describes the hours, and then the moments leading to Wesley Purkey's execution

News 10's Heather Good describes the hours, and then the moments leading to Wesley Purkey's execution

Being executed".

News 10's "heather good"..

Was among "several witnesses" who sat and waited to see purkey's execution through.

There was "legal back-and-forth" all day "yesterday" and "today".

New for you now at "5"... news 10's "alia blackburn"..

Walks us through "heather's experience".

////// for news 10's heather good... the story of wesley purkey's execution starts just before 5 p-m- wednesday.

She made her way back... to federal prison grounds... to check in as a media witness... that's after learning the execution was pushed to 7 p-m-.

"i had hoped that things would move along quicker than monday, and i thought that because they had pushed back the execution time, that perhaps, all of the legal hurdles would've been dealt with... and when we actually got there, we would be able to proceed."

However... media members would proceed to wait for several hours.

"the bop officials in the room seemed to think that this really could happen at any time so we were never released."

The back and forth.... between wesley's legal team and the courts... would go on until at least 2:30 thursday morning.

The media... and the victim's family... were hauled into vans headed for the execution chambers.

Leaving them all to sit.... and wait again... until 7:53.

"by 7:55 that curtain had been raised, i also noticed at that time that they were taking a face mask off of wesley purkey which i thought was interesting because i did not notice daniel lee at any point wearing a face mask."

"i was kind of taken a back, his cheeks seemed kind of rosy the first time i saw him... and then obviously as the execution took place and he eventually died, you saw all that color leave his face."

Just before fading away on the gurney... heather says it was a change from daniel lee's execution... while lee used his final words to maintain his innocence... purkey spent his on apologies to his daughter... her family... and the victim's.

"one of his final statements was this sanitized murder really does not serve no purpose whatsoever."

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