Post by Logan on Jan 21, 2016 1:17:04 GMT -6
Texas on Wednesday executed a man convicted of strangling a female impersonator in Houston in 2001 and then stealing the victim's car, a prisons official said.
Richard Masterson, 43, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. Masterson was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., the official said.
"Sending me to a better place. I am all right with this, you have to live and die by the choices that we make," Masterson was quoted by prisons officials as saying in his final statement.
The execution was the state's first this year and its 532nd since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
Continued at www.reuters.com/article/us-execution-texas-idUSKCN0UY1BY .
Richard Masterson, 43, was put to death by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville. Masterson was pronounced dead at 6:53 p.m., the official said.
"Sending me to a better place. I am all right with this, you have to live and die by the choices that we make," Masterson was quoted by prisons officials as saying in his final statement.
The execution was the state's first this year and its 532nd since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
Continued at www.reuters.com/article/us-execution-texas-idUSKCN0UY1BY .