Texas man who said death sentence was based on discredited testimony is executed for 1990 killing
Texas man who said death sentence was based on discredited testimony is executed for 1990 killing
The execution was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected claims by Brewer's attorneys that prosecutors at a 2009 resentencing trial had relied on false and discredited expert testimony.
A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false and unscientific expert testimony was executed Thursday evening for killing a man during a robbery decades ago.
Brent Ray Brewer, 53, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the April 1990 death of Robert Laminack. The inmate was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m. local time, 15 minutes after the chemicals began flowing.
Prosecutors had said Laminack, 66, gave Brewer and his girlfriend a ride to a Salvation Army location in Amarillo when he was stabbed in the neck and robbed of $140.
Brewer’s execution came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in over the inmate’s claims that prosecutors had relied on false and discredited expert testimony at his 2009 resentencing trial.
Brewer has long expressed remorse for the killing and a desire to apologize to Laminack’s family.
“I will never be able to repay or replace the hurt (and) worry (and) pain I caused you. I come to you in true humility and honest heart and ask for your forgiveness,” Brewer wrote in a letter to Laminack’s family that was included in his clemency application to the parole board.
So did he do it then? Because it sounds like they were trying to get him off on a technicality, rather than because he didn't do it and was falsely accused.
45Surely, the life begins at birth people will mourne say this is a travesty
17This is gonna sound fucked up, but him being murdered by the state was much more of a mercy than being raped, tortured and enslaved behind bars for the entirety of his natural life because of concern he may have been innocent.
Like people dismiss the state taking away large chunks of people's lives because of the "at least they're alive" argument, but you can use that to justify rape and abuse and all sorts of things that are very clearly worse than death.
If I was in his shoes, I'd have demanded expedited execution and so would all of you, if you knew truly what goes on behind bars.
-14If you’re going to kill someone who killed someone, to show that killing is wrong, the punishment should fit the crime.
Lethal injection, are you fucking kidding me? I know druggies that pay money for that, SMH.
If you’re going to execute someone, the gas chamber should be the only option. Let them feel the amount of anxiety their victims felt when they realized they were going to die a horrible death.
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