Terry Clark, who raped and murdered 9-year-old Dena...

Terry Clark, who raped and murdered 9-year-old Dena Lynn on July 17, 1986, a year after he was convicted of raping another little girl, died by chemical injection - the first person executed in New Mexico in nearly 42 years. Clark, 45, was pronounced dead at 7:12 p.m. His final words were: "15 minutes". The reference came from the book, "Dead Man Walking" by Sister Helen Prejean. Clark, who decided in March to end his appeals, never denied killing Dena Lynn. The last person executed in New Mexico before Clark was David Cooper Nelson, the only person who died in state's gas chamber on Jan. 8, 1960. Years ago, Clark followed his lawyers' advice and pleaded guilty in the hopes that then-Gov. Toney Anaya would commute Clark's pending death sentence to life imprisonment. Anaya, an opponent of capital punishment, had just emptied death row. But his term ran out before Clark was sentenced - and Anaya refused to grant a conditional pardon that would have guaranteed a life sentence. Today, Anaya says Clark's death may come back to haunt him. Clark becomes the 58th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA.