A death row inmate was executed Thursday in Texas, more than 30 years after the murder of four people, linked to a drug deal, which he denied committing.
Arthur Brown Jr., 52, was killed by a lethal injection at Huntsville Penitentiary.
“What is happening tonight is not justice, it is the murder of an innocent man in a homicide that took place in 1992,” Arthur Brown Jr. said moments before the execution, according to a statement from Texas prison authorities.
This is the fifth death row inmate executed this year in the conservative southern state and the ninth in the United States.
According to the indictment, in 1992, Brown and two accomplices went to the Houston drug lord’s home, where they killed four of 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 tried unsuccessfully to stop the execution. They pointed to problems in the investigation, based on unreliable testimony, demanded new DNA tests and appealed to the Supreme Court, which banned executions of people with severe intellectual disabilities.
Source: TSF
