The execution was carried out after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected claims by Brewer's attorneys that prosecutors at a 2009 resentencing trial had relied on false and discredited expert testimony.

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.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
    472·
    1 year ago

    That using political slogans outside their intended context and reading them literally is a bad idea.

    Also that partisans will only notice when you do that for one side’s slogan and not the other.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      382·
      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure the context that “all life is precious” applies here. That’s what pro-lifers claim. But apparently someone who may be innocent still deserves to be executed according to the people pro-lifers knowingly vote for.

      • Rivalarrival
        102·
        1 year ago

        Brewer has long expressed remorse for the killing and a desire to apologize to Laminack’s family.

        “I will never be able to repay or replace the hurt (and) worry (and) pain I caused you. I come to you in true humility and honest heart and ask for your forgiveness,” Brewer wrote in a letter to Laminack’s family that was included in his clemency application to the parole board.

        He did not dispute the guilty verdict. He is guilty. He admitted guilt. He has not claimed innocence. Quite the contrary, he explicitly claimed to have committed the murder.

        He disputed the expert testimony of a witness at his sentencing hearing who claimed he would forever remain a danger.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
        233·
        1 year ago

        Nobody is claiming he is innocent in the article that I read.

        But you don’t think that somebody can believe that life is precious but also that some people don’t deserve to live?

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          151·
          1 year ago

          Yes, people can believe all kinds of contradictory things. That doesn’t make them any less hypocritical.

              • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
                117·
                1 year ago

                You really don’t get that slogans are designed to be catchy rather than descriptive? Really? REALLY?

                Like you never got annoyed about how people (mis)interpreted “defund the police”? Or “black lives matter”?

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                  101·
                  1 year ago

                  I’m not misinterpreting anything. If “all life is precious” that means there are no exceptions. And that’s what they say.