A death row inmate was executed in Texas on Thursday, more than 30 years after murdering four people in connection with a drug deal he denied committing.
Arthur Brown Jr., 52, was killed by lethal injection at Huntsville Penitentiary.
“What’s happening tonight isn’t justice, it’s the murder of an innocent man in a murder that happened in 1992.”said Arthur Brown Jr. just before the execution, according to a statement from Texas prison authorities.
This is the fifth death row inmate to be executed this year in the conservative southern state and the ninth in the United States.
According to the indictment, Brown and two accomplices went to the Houston drug dealer’s home in 1992, where they killed four of the six people.
Arthur Brown was arrested four months later and sentenced to death in 1994, although he always maintained his innocence.
The alleged accomplices were also convicted of the murders: one was executed in 2006 and the other is serving a life sentence.
Brown’s lawyers have unsuccessfully tried to stop the execution. They pointed out problems in the investigation, based on unreliable testimony, demanded new DNA tests and appealed to the Supreme Court, which banned the execution of people with severe intellectual disabilities.
Source: DN
