Arthur Brown Jr. was executed at the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville on Thursday...
Arthur Brown Jr. was executed on March 9, 2023 in Huntsville for the deaths of four people, including a pregnant woman, during a 1992 robbery at a drug house in southwest Houston.for the murders of a pregnant woman and three other people during a drug house robbery in southwest Houston in 1992. He calmly maintained his innocence to the end, saying he and a codefendant who was previously executed had been unfairly condemned to die.
After the drugs entered his system, his chest began rising and falling rapidly and he started to snore. Then 30 seconds later he was still.Texas inmate seeks stay of execution, says Harris County prosecutors withheld evidence in 1993 trial The three men were convicted of capital murder and two were sentenced to execution. Dudley, who, along with Brown, maintained his innocence, was executed in 2006, and Dunson is eligible for parole in 2027.
“This was under a different administration but have an opportunity to fix it,” Benjamin Wolff, director of the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs, told the Houston Chronicle last week., which Joshua Reiss, chief of the post-conviction writs division for the Harris County District Attorney's Office, wrote off as a delay tactic because the defense could not prove that the newly discovered evidence could have changed the outcome of the trial.
Reiss said the evidence against Brown was"devastating." Law enforcement officials linked the guns to Brown in court and documented his flight from Houston following the shooting.
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