The 52-year-old was executed yesterday (9/10) by injection in Texas death row inmate Arthur Brown Jr., more than 30 years since a drug-related quadruple murder he denied to the end.
“What’s happening tonight is not justice, it’s the killing of an innocent man for a murder that happened in 1992,” he said shortly before his death, according to a statement from the Texas Department of Corrections.
He is the fifth death row inmate executed since the beginning of the year in the southern US state and the ninth in the country.
The murder
According to the indictment, Arthur Brown Jr. went in 1992 with two accomplices to the house of the man from whom he was buying drugs, in Houston. After tying up the six people who were there, they put a bullet in the back of the head. Four of the victims, including a minor and a pregnant woman, died and two survived.
Arthur Brown Jr he was arrested four months later and was sentenced in 1994 to death, although he always declared his innocence. His alleged accomplices were also convicted of the murders: one was executed in 2006 and the other is serving a life sentence.
As his sentencing date approached, Brown’s lawyers had stepped up their efforts to save him. They expressed their doubts about the investigation, which was based on not very reliable testimonies, and asked in vain for a new DNA test to be carried out. They also asked the Supreme Court of USAwhich has prohibited the execution of persons suffering from mental retardation, to cancel his execution on this ground, however without success.
However, they were joined by British billionaire Richard Branson, who on Virgin’s website called for “a halt to the execution” of Arthur Brown. According to him, new evidence points to another suspect and “his mental disability” should be “reason enough not to proceed with the execution”.
Source: News Beast
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