Robert Wayne Harris [PHOTOS] gets execution. Texas executed its eighth inmate this year on Thursday, a former Dallas-area car wash employee convicted of killing two co-workers a week after he was fired in 2000.

Robert Wayne Harris, 40, was executed in Huntsville at 6:43 p.m. with a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital.

His last statement: “I want to let y'all  know that I love you, Billy, I love you, English, Hart and Eloise.  Dwight, take care of Dwight.  I'm going home, I'm going home.  I'll be all right, don't worry, I love y'all.  God Bless and the Texas Rangers, Texas Rangers.”

Earlier Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied requests for a stay of execution. Harris had confessed to killing five people at the Mi-T-Fine car wash in Irving, Texas, on March 20, 2000, and was charged in connection with all five, but tried for just two.

Harris' attorney, Lydia Brandt, had argued in a petition submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court this month that Harris' execution should be stayed because, at the time of his trial, prosecutors improperly removed all of the potential jurors who were black, like Harris. Go here to read more and see photos.