article_snippet.sent: He fate was sealed after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down several appeals, including one claiming ex-wife Terri Cole was mentally ill and unfit for execution.
article_snippet.sent: ex-wife Terri Cole was executed by lethal injection at 10.15pm on Tuesday at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri and was pronounced dead at 10.24pm, Department of Corrections Director George A. Lombardi wrote in a statement to Daily Mail Online.
article_snippet.sent: Cole used a kitchen knife to repeatedly stab Curtis, then Cole.
article_snippet.sent: Curtis died but Cole survived.
article_snippet.sent: Cole was executed by lethal injection at 10.15pm on Tuesday at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (above) in Bonne Terre, Missouri .
highlights_snippet.sent: He was given the death sentence for the 1998 murder of Anthony Curtis .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: He confronted ex-wife Terri Cole on August 21, 1998 and used a kitchen knife to repeatedly stab Anthony Curtis and Terri Cole; ex-wife Terri Cole survived the stabbing .
  