Killer's Song Boasts Of Massacre

A man sentenced to death for killing five restaurant workers wrote a song bragging about the massacre, a New York newspaper reported.

The Daily News said John Taylor, 38, who planned the robbery in which five Wendy's fast-food workers were shot to death in 2000, wrote the lyrics to a rap song in which he described himself as a "stick up kid so swift you see, in and out like 1-2-3."

The lyrics read, in part:

I said give me the doe you say no, no?

is it no you said stick some lead to your head

guess what punk now your dead

with all that blood bursting out your head

from head to toe if you wanna know I gotta go,

thats why they got me on

the worlds most wanted show

The newspaper said the handwritten lyrics were found in a suitcase that contained some of the cash taken in the holdup.

On Wednesday, Taylor was sentenced to death by lethal injection for his role in herding seven Wendy's employees into a freezer, where five of the bound-and-gagged workers were executed. The other two workers were shot but survived.

The same jury that convicted him decided six weeks ago that he should face the death penalty.

Before state Supreme Court Justice Steven W. Fisher imposed the sentence, Taylor turned in court to address relatives of his victims.

"If taking my life will make each and every one of you feel better, take my life today," Taylor told them. A half-dozen of the relatives walked out of the courtroom when he stood to speak.

Taylor was convicted in November of pulling the trigger on two of the murders on May 24, 2000, along with a third count for committing multiple murders in a single criminal act.

Prosecutors said the former Wendy's employee had planned the heist and ordered the murders.

Co-defendant Craig Godineaux, 32, pleaded guilty to shooting five of the victims — three fatally. He was ineligible for the death penalty because he is mentally retarded, and instead received five life sentences.

No one has been executed in New York since 1963, although the state reinstated the death penalty in 1995.

Death sentences are automatically reviewed by the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court.