Beam Me Up

Gary Burris used a .38 handgun to shoot and kill Kenneth Chambers, a cab driver, on Jan. 29, 1980. He was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 20, 1997. His final words, were a plea to the starship Enterprise: “Beam me up.”

Gary Burris used a .38 handgun to shoot and kill Kenneth Chambers, a cab driver, on Jan. 29, 1980. He was executed by lethal injection on Nov. 20, 1997. His final words, were a plea to the starship Enterprise: “Beam me up.”