This undated prison file photo provided by the Georgia Department of Corrections shows convicted murderer Andrew Brannan.JACKSON, Ga. — A man who fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy who stopped him for speeding on a Georgia interstate was put to death Tuesday for the 1998 killing, which was captured on the patrol car’s video camera.
Andrew Howard Brannan, 66, was pronounced dead at 8:33 p.m. Tuesday after a single-drug injection at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in the January 1998 shooting death of Kyle Dinkheller, a 22-year-old sheriff’s deputy in Laurens County, central Georgia.
“I extend my condolences to the Dinkheller family, especially Kyle’s parents and his wife and his two children,” Brannan said moments before the injection was administered.
“I really feel like I was in a status of slow torture over the last 15 years,” Brannan said, adding that he knows the Department of Corrections has a limited budget and probably did the best they could. “It sure was tough on me, so I’m certainly glad to be leaving.”
The warden read the execution order and then left the death chamber at 8:19 p.m. Records from past executions have shown that the drugs generally start flowing within a minute or two of the warden leaving.