Charles Wesley Roache gave up his appeals to demonstrate his remorse for 6 murders in 1999.

Charles Wesley Roache gave up his appeals to demonstrate his remorse for 6 murders in 1999. 
His execution before dawn this morning by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh ended a most unusual murder case.
To start, Roache and Christopher Wayne Lippard didn't kill just 1 person in 1999. Over 2 days in September, they shot to death 6, beginning with the slaying of Chad McKinley Watt, 22. Then they drove down Interstate 40 and murdered a family that had just returned home from a local fair: Earl Phillips, 72; his wife, Cora, 71; their son Eddie, 40; their daughter-in-law Mitzi, 44, and granddaughter Katie, 14. The motive was robbery.
But then Roache did the unexpected. He waited nearby for police, surrendered and confessed right away, even going so far as to tell police about Watt's killing, which they didn't yet know about.
Roache, now 30, was sentenced to die. Lippard, 25, got life in prison without parole.
After one mandatory appeal, Roache gave up years' worth of further possible appeals and told the state to go ahead and kill him. He said it was to show his remorse and to try to make up for his crimes.
Roache becomes the 3rd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in North Carolina and the  52nd in the USA. Nationally, at least 11 more condemned inmates face serious execution dates before the end of this year.