Jul 26 2020 39 mins 6
My friend and colleague John Huck from FOX 5 Las Vegas and I discuss witnessing the execution of a condemned death row inmate. Lawrence Colwell Jr. was convicted of robbing and killing 76-year-old Frank Rosenstock, a New York resident visiting Las Vegas. Rosenstock was lured to his hotel room at the Tropicana Hotel by Colwell's girlfriend Merillee Paul who was posing as a prostitute. Once in his room he was robbed and strangled to death with a belt. Colwell told the court that he had planned to kill someone for weeks. He wanted to know what it felt like and said it was as easy as driving a car. On March 26, 2004 Lawrence Colwell Jr. was executed by way of lethal injection at Nevada State Prison in Carson City Nevada. He was the first inmate to be executed after a moratorium on executions. Colwell was dead within 20 minutes of the injection. John Huck and I both covered the days leading up to the execution and the night it happened. WEBSITE (Case Photos) http://www.truecrimedeadline.com SOCIAL MEDIA: https://twitter.com/CrimeDeadline https://www.instagram.com/truecrimedeadline/ https://www.facebook.com/TrueCrimeDEADLINE/ Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/posts/true-crime-lets-26942079?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=postshare)
