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Post by spinaltap on Feb 1, 2019 5:15:04 GMT -6
Only took 30 years
Robert Jennings was on Texas’ death row for nearly 30 years. On Wednesday, the 61-year-old was put to death in the nation’s first execution of 2019.
Jennings was sentenced to death in the 1988 murder of Houston police officer Elston Howard. According to court records, Jennings walked into an adult bookstore to rob it, and Howard was there arresting the store clerk for a municipal violation. The clerk testified that Howard had no time to even reach for his gun before Jennings shot him multiple times, killing him.
Less than an hour after his final appeals were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, Jennings was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital at 6:15 p.m. in the state's execution chamber in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead 18 minutes later. In his final words uttered strapped to a gurney, he told his friends and family it was "a nice journey."
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Post by hawg on Feb 1, 2019 12:39:00 GMT -6
..."a nice journey". yeah, I suppose 30 years of free room and board, no taxes to pay, no concerns of providing for family, home, car repairs and life in general would be a "nice" life.
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Post by whitediamonds on Feb 1, 2019 18:45:24 GMT -6
A nice journey, meaning what? He was alive for 30 yrs & taken care of. Disgusting.
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