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Texas kills

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via AP: Stephen Moody, 52, strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney at Walls Unit in Huntsville, about 70 miles north of Houston, addressed his victim’s mother and son as they watched through a window. “I was unable to respond to you in the courtroom,” he said. “I can only ask that you have the peace that I do.” After expressing love to his relatives and friends watching through an adjacent window, he said: “Warden, pull the trigger.” The lethal drugs began flowing into his arms at 6:20 p.m., and he was pronounced dead eight minutes later. Moody had asked that no last-minute appeals be filed to try to block his execution. Moody accepted responsibility for killing Joseph Hall, 28, with a blast from a sawed-off shotgun at Hall’s Houston home in October 1991...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).