( CNN ) -- In a case that drew national attention because it was to be videotaped , convicted murderer Andrew Grant DeYoung was executed by lethal injection Thursday night , a corrections department spokeswoman said . DeYoung was declared dead at 8:04 p.m. at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson , said Joan Heath , the spokeswoman . His last words were : `` I 'm sorry for everyone I 've hurt , '' according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution , which was one of the media outlets granted access to the execution . The execution occurred after the state Supreme Court denied DeYoung 's motion to take another look at a lower court judge 's decision Tuesday allowing the state to replace sodium thiopental with pentobarbital as the anesthetizing agent in the execution , the court 's statement said . That lower court judge 's ruling , however , did approve the rare videotaping of the execution at the request of DeYoung 's attorneys , who argued that the substitution of drugs would cause needless pain and suffering . For the first time in Georgia , a videographer was present in the execution chamber to document DeYoung 's death and his reaction to a new three-drug lethal injection that anti-death penalty activists said caused unnecessary pain and suffering , according to reports in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution . On October 13 , 1995 , DeYoung was convicted in Cobb County of fatally stabbing his parents , Kathryn and Gary DeYoung , and his 14-year-old sister , Sarah . His final meal was an institutional one -- chicken and rice , Heath said . DeYoung 's special request for pizza , breadsticks , all-fruit strawberry preserves , Concord grape juice and vanilla ice cream was carried out on Wednesday , Heath said . With Thursday 's execution , Georgia has put to death 51 men since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1973 . DeYoung was the 28th inmate put to death by lethal injection , the state corrections department said . CNN 's Bill Mears and Michael Martinez contributed to this report .
NEW : John Thomas DeYoung is executed by lethal injection . He was convicted of killing his mother and sister . At the family 's request , a lower court allows for a videotaping of the execution .