He was sentenced to death for the 2004 killing of 46-year-old Pablo Castro, a convenience store clerk, in Corpus Christi. "I know these are mere words and cannot erase the damage I did. Greg Abbott decided not to intervene and several late appeals were denied, Jones, 41, was led into Texas death chamber in Huntsville shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday. His family was not in the adjacent witness room, according to a prison report. Both men were found buried in Beets' yard. She said he once had beaten her so severely that he had left her for dead, the neighbor, Lieanna Wilkerson, testified. This story has been shared 100,161 times. Aside from clemency appeals, Jones also filed late appeals in state and federal courts this month. In a clemency petition asking the state pardons board and governor to commute his sentence to life in prison, she and Jones twin brother pleaded for the state not to victimize them again. For the first time in nearly four years, Florida executed a man Thursday for a carjacking that led to the brutal murder of a woman more than three RESCHEDULED on HUNTSVILLE, Texas Texas oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Those records, per her clemency petition, tell a story of Melissas love for the children, as well as her inability to care for them properly, pointing in part to the familys struggle with poverty and Lucios drug addiction. In 2000, the state executed 40 inmates. Lucios family appeared at the press briefing, thanking her legal team. He was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m., 13 minutes later. Prosecutors said Cole bent her backward in her crib when her cries interrupted his video game, snapping her spine and tearing her aorta, in December 2002. On Monday, the Tennessee Supreme Court denied hearing his appeal. Buntions attorneys said he was responsible for Irbys death and deserved to be punished severely for that crime.. by Jolie McCullough With his execution, Buntion became the oldest person Texas has put to death since the Supreme Court lifted its ban on capital punishment in 1976. The US Supreme Court had declined a request by Buntions attorneys to stop his execution. Top right, Carl Buntion expressed remorse for killing a Houston police officer in an interview with KHOU 11 News. Changes to Visitation, Death Row Information Scheduled Executions. 'That's my mother. One of the four inmates who filed the lawsuit, Mark Robertson, 54, has spent the past 31 years on death row, with 21 of those in solitary confinement. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Texas has executed more than 50 people, Get the Android Weather app from Google Play, Sign Up for Daily News & Breaking News Newsletters, Sign up for Digging Deep: Inside KXAN Investigates newsletter. Carl Wayne Buntion in an undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the appeal last week. Texas death row inmate Quintin Jones is scheduled to be executed Wednesday evening. If today brings you nothing else, I hope you get peace and closure. See you when you get there. history.". RELATED:Women, children shown in eerie photos taken by serial killer from San Antonio. The TDCJ said Texas leads the nation in the number of executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. WebTexas Department of Criminal Justice via A. HUNTSVILLE, Texas Texas oldest death row inmate was executed Thursday for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic murder in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of the other person as a judge or justice of the supreme court, the court of criminal appeals, a court of appeals, a district court, a criminal district court, a constitutional county court, a statutory county court, a justice court, or a municipal court. She was indicted but never tried in the death of her fourth husband, Doyle Wayne Barker. Summary: Williams was convicted in the Sept. 7, 2000, shooting death of a Houston man. I can accept that, he said. But they argued his execution was unconstitutional because the jurys finding he would be a future danger to society one of the reasons he was given a death sentence has proven incorrect, and also his execution would serve no legitimate purpose because so much time has passed since his conviction. Greg Abbott to either grant an execution reprieve or commute her sentence. 16. After the parole board on Tuesday denied Jones mercy petition to change his sentence to life in prison, his lawyer complained in federal court that the same board had previously spared the life of Thomas Whitaker, a white man, in a comparable death penalty case three years ago. Devries committed suicide July 1, 1974, by hanging himself with bed Texas also ranks third in having one of the largest death row populations. Find a complete list of them here. Lucios case garnered wider attention after being featured in the 2020 documentary, The State of Texas vs. Melissa.. Cargill was sentenced in 2012 in the death of her son's developmentally disabled babysitter. Hooper, 76, was executed in Arizona on November 16. Sheppard and James Dickerson decided to steal Meagher's car, slashed her throat five times, wrapped her head in a plastic bag and struck her in the head with a 10-pound statue. the average time on death row prior to execution is 11.22 years. "(They) did find that Quintin Jones would constitute a future danger based on all the evidence.". Double your gift when you give by 6 p.m. Thursday. In this undated photograph, Texas death row inmate Melissa Lucio is holding one of her sons, John. A spiritual advisor was present at Buntions execution, nearly two months after the US Supreme Court ruled that the death row inmate could have his spiritual adviser pray aloud and lay hands on him during his execution. Summary: In 2002, Sprouse shot and killed a man at a gas station, and also killed the police officer responding to the scene of the crime. It has been called Dr. Seuss Day because of this. Report a correction or typo Summary: Newbury, one of the fugitives in the notorious "Texas 7" prison gang, was convicted in the slaying of a suburban Dallas police officer during the escaped prisoners' holdup of a sporting goods store more than 14 years ago. Postelle's attorneys had argued that he should not be executed for various reasons, including a learning disability. According to the TDCJ database, Brooks was placed on death row after a mechanic was shot and killed in 1976 in Tarrant County. 2. He immediately confessed to the murders and told investigators God had told him to carry out the killings. Amplify your impact and donate now. The Death Penalty Information Center called it "the longest botched lethal injection execution in U.S. Buntion, who was the first inmate in Texas to be executed this year, was put on death row after being convicted of fatally shooting 37-year-old Houston police motorcycle officer James Irby after a traffic stop in 1990, according to the Texas Department of Corrections. CNNs Amir Vera, Claudia Dominguez, Jenn Selva and Natasha Chen contributed to this report. Jones was sentenced to death in 2001 in Tarrant County after he beat his 83-year-old great-aunt, Berthena Bryant, to death with a baseball bat after she refused to lend him more money, according to court records. Im sorry someone died. He wanted to be the dad that was there to go to all the ballgames and the father-daughter dances. 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He also noted Jones had been convicted of violent behavior in his youth and was tied to two other murders. State Rep. Jeff Leach called Lucio to deliver the news, and she immediately sobbed on the phone, realizing she wouldnt be executed this week, according to an audio of the conversation obtained by CNN. Age entered death row: 31Execution: March 11, 2015Summary: Vasquez was convicted of strangling and robbing a man for the Mexican Mafia for failing to pay them. Summary: Tercero was convicted of killing a man in front of his 3-year-old daughter at a cleaners on March 31, 1997. As Texas prepared to execute Buntion, officials in Tennessee canceled the execution of an inmate Thursday in what would have been the states first execution since the start of the pandemic. The intake form noted that he appeared psychotic and suicidal. Sheppard was convicted in the 1993 killing of Marilyn Sage Meagher in Houston. Newton was convicted in the fatal shootings of her husband and two children in 1997. He was sentenced to death for killing a couple, James and Zelma Long, during a robbery at their rural home in 1996. 2023 Cable News Network. WebIn 1994, 49 inmates arrived on death row in Texas, nearly one a week. Plagued by mental illness, Texas death row inmate Andre Thomas started hearing voices when he was nine years old and first attempted suicide when he was 10, his attorneys say. Summary: Escamilla was convicted in the Nov. 25, 2001, shooting death of a Dallas police officer after Escamilla was fighting in the parking lot of a nightclub. Jones execution was the states first execution of the year and its second during the coronavirus pandemic, an unusual lull in the state with the busiest death chamber. The view of Texas' execution chamber from a witness viewing room. CapMetro apologizes for post-Austin FC game service, APA! 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