Only three of the “Texas 7” now remain on Death Row.
Via WFAA
One of the infamous “Texas 7” fugitives was executed by the State of Texas Wednesday night.
Donald Newbury was put to death for his role in the murder of an Irving police officer on Christmas Eve in 2000. He was declared dead by lethal injection at 6:25 p.m.[…]
The Irving police chief and a group of officers stood vigil outside the Walls Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary where the sentence was carried out. As the lethal drugs began to take effect on the convicted killer, the officers revved their motorcycles.
New Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was also present for the execution.
In the minutes leading up to his death, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute appeal by Newbury’s lawyers, who argued that his trial lawyers had failed to show that he suffered psychological damage from childhood abuse.
Newbury’s life had been spared once before — when a stay was issued one week before he was supposed to die in 2012.
Newbury and six other inmates staged the state’s largest prison break in 2000. They broke into a sporting goods store on Christmas Eve and shot and killed the 29-year-old Irving police officer. The suspects were captured a few weeks later in Colorado.
HT Breaking911