A DOUBLE-MURDERER told the families of his victims that his execution would “traumatize more people” and begged for forgiveness moments before he died. Killer Charles Victor Thompson, 55, died by lethal injection on Wednesday – marking the first US execution of the year. Thompson was given the death penalty for the 1998 murders of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip, 39, and her boyfriend, Darren Cain, 30. But a jury against sentenced him to die by lethal injection after a new trial in November 2005. Florida carried out the most, followed by Alabama, South Carolina and Texas – and 39 were carried out by lethal injection.