01-21-2016, 02:16 PM
Texas
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Richard Masterson, 43, was pronounced dead at 6.53pm yesterday, 25 minutes after the lethal injection began.
'I'm all right with this,' he said. 'Sometimes you have to live and die by the choices you make. I made mine and I'm paying for it.' As the drug Pentobarbital took effect, he began snoring. After about a dozen snores, he stopped moving.
Masterson had testified at his trial that the death of 35-year-old Darin Shane Honeycutt in Houston happened accidentally during a chokehold that was part of a sex act. The two had met at a bar and then went to Honeycutt's apartment.
Honeycutt was an entertainer who performed dressed as a woman. Honeycutt's stage name was Brandi Houston.
However, court records showed Masterson confessed to police, told others about the killing and acknowledged Honeycutt was slain on purpose in a letter to the Texas attorney general in 2012.
Masterson's case recently drew the attention of Pope Francis, who has reinforced the Catholic Church's opposition to capital punishment.
Texas is the nation's busiest death penalty state, having carried out 13 lethal injections in 2015, which accounted for nearly half of the 28 executions nationwide.
At least eight other Texas death row inmates have executions scheduled for the coming months, including one set for next week.
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z3xu1Y90cC
Richard Masterson, 43, was pronounced dead at 6.53pm yesterday, 25 minutes after the lethal injection began.
'I'm all right with this,' he said. 'Sometimes you have to live and die by the choices you make. I made mine and I'm paying for it.' As the drug Pentobarbital took effect, he began snoring. After about a dozen snores, he stopped moving.
Masterson had testified at his trial that the death of 35-year-old Darin Shane Honeycutt in Houston happened accidentally during a chokehold that was part of a sex act. The two had met at a bar and then went to Honeycutt's apartment.
Honeycutt was an entertainer who performed dressed as a woman. Honeycutt's stage name was Brandi Houston.
However, court records showed Masterson confessed to police, told others about the killing and acknowledged Honeycutt was slain on purpose in a letter to the Texas attorney general in 2012.
Masterson's case recently drew the attention of Pope Francis, who has reinforced the Catholic Church's opposition to capital punishment.
Texas is the nation's busiest death penalty state, having carried out 13 lethal injections in 2015, which accounted for nearly half of the 28 executions nationwide.
At least eight other Texas death row inmates have executions scheduled for the coming months, including one set for next week.
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z3xu1Y90cC