Texas has executed an inmate convicted of the drug-related killings of four people more than 30 years ago, including a woman who was nine months pregnant.
Arthur Brown Jr., 52, insisted he was innocent before receiving a lethal injection Thursday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the June 1992 slayings, which took place in a Houston home during a drug robbery.
"I don't see how anybody could have just killed a pregnant woman and then made her suffer so much. It's just beyond words," Quiñones' older sister, Maricella Quiñones, said before the execution. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg, who was among the execution witnesses, disputed Brown's claims of innocence.
"After 30 years of anguish and uncertainty, we are finally able to rest knowing the monster who destroyed so many lives will never again torment the body or soul of another," they said. One of Brown's accomplices in the shootings, Marion Dudley, was executed in 2006. A third partner was sentenced to life in prison.Brown's attorneys had previously filed other appeals that had been rejected by lower courts. They argued he was innocent and that a witness actually implicated another suspect. They also claimed Brown's conviction was tainted by racial bias, alleging one of the jurors decided he was guilty because he was Black.
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