A Tennessee death row inmate executed by lethal injection on Thursday directed his last words to his son, who witnessed his killer dad’s execution.

“Tell my son ‘hello,’” Anthony Hines, 66, said before he was put to death for callously murdering mother of four, Catherine Jean Jenkins, 54, in 1985, according to the Associated Press.

Hines last saw his son when he was 3 years old and the two reconnected four days before the execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville.

Witnesses described Hines groaning and breathing heavily before he was pronounced dead at 10:43 a.m.

Jenkins’ son, Dennis Jenkins, was also in attendance for the…

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