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.
Not as barbaric as the murder he committed.
Fair enough, so who is getting executed for this one?
You can feel free to do the legal research and try to figure out a compelling argument for executing a government.
Well no, we didn’t murder society for his murder, we murdered him. So we shouldn’t murder the government, we should murder his murderer. Right?
I just hope it wasn’t you that administered the lethal injection, then we’ll have to murder you!
The dark ages called, they want to know if you’re going to be home for dinner.
You’re that person in your friend group who thinks they’re really funny, but just tells mediocre jokes that a dime-store joke book features, right?
You’re that person who everyone hates and want nothing to do with, who sits at home stewing and planning to shoot up a mall to prove them wrong, right?
By why stoop to that level?
I’m not saying we should. I just get irked when people gripe about the death penalty without acknowledging that a lot of the people who receive it deserve it.
Wow what an insightful, well-researched reason.
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Good thing that’s not at all how a trial works, genius.
Shh… Adults are talking.