In previous appeals rejected by lower courts, Brown’s defense argued that he was innocent and that a witness had implicated another suspect. Brown over the course of his life have described him as consistently ‘slow.’” The attorneys provided evidence showing that Brown had been in special education classes since he was a young child and was deemed “educable mentally retarded” in elementary school and that in third grade his IQ was measured at 70, generally indicating an intellectual disability. Brown’s intellectual limitations were known to his friends and family. In their petition to the Supreme Court, Brown’s attorneys wrote, “Mr. They had argued that Brown should be exempt from execution because he was intellectually disabled.
The US Supreme Court declined an appeal from Brown’s attorneys to halt the execution earlier Thursday.
All movement stopped after 6 more snores. I have no further words.”Īfter the toxic chemical began to flow at 6:20 p.m., Brown took 2 deep breaths, gasped and then began snoring, according to the local NBC affiliate. “Tonight, Texas will kill a 2nd innocent man for a murder that occurred in 1992. “My co-defendant was executed in 2006 and if I’m innocent he was innocent and they killed an innocent man, and the state doesn’t want the truth to come out,” he added. Brown was convicted and sentenced to die for killing Jose Tovar, 32 Frank Farias, 17 Jessica Quiñones, 19, who was 9 months pregnant and Audrey Brown, 21 in what authorities said was a drug robbery gone horribly wrong.Īccording to prison officials, as Brown lay strapped to a gurney in the execution chamber, staring at the ceiling, he said, “What is occurring here tonight is not justice, it’s murder of an innocent man for a murder that occurred in 1992. Brown, 52, maintained his innocence until he was injected with a lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. was put to death for the 1992 killings of 4 people in Houston, Texas. The state also provided a temporary reprieve to an obviously severely mentally disturbed prisoner who had been set to be executed in April. So far in 2023, Texas has executed 5 condemned inmates, including 2 men over the past week. The state is responsible for 583 of the 1,551 individuals executed since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.
Texas has put to death far more people than any other US state that still practices capital punishment. Texas executes 2 mentally impaired death row inmates, temporarily spares a 3rd
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