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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.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not as barbaric as the murder he committed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

By why stoop to that level?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is gonna sound fucked up, but him being murdered by the state was much more of a mercy than being raped, tortured and enslaved behind bars for the entirety of his natural life because of concern he may have been innocent.

Like people dismiss the state taking away large chunks of people's lives because of the "at least they're alive" argument, but you can use that to justify rape and abuse and all sorts of things that are very clearly worse than death.

If I was in his shoes, I'd have demanded expedited execution and so would all of you, if you knew truly what goes on behind bars.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Perhaps you should do something about that "raped, tortured and enslaved" part so the death penalty seems better than prison? Prison is supposed to keep dangerous people away from society and rehabilitate them if possible.

People in prison should be safe from such crimes happening to them.

I really don't understand how people are okay with this "he's going to be killed in prison" sentiment of someone is sent there for very bad crimes when his sentence is "prison" and not "death". Prison should mean being locked away safely from society having time to think about their crimes - nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If you cared, why wouldn't you go out and force them to change instead of arguing on the Internet with an elephant?

The only way I as a pink drunken elephant could do anything about it is if I butchered millions of people in a brutal civil war to shut down the entire jail system and violently overthrow the U.S. government. Is that what you want, or are you demanding I instead submit to your opinion and advocate your perspective and feelings on the matter like some pink drunken robot? As if you ranting on the internet about it has done anything to change the system or save any lives?

Grow the fuck up. My opinion on the matter will not change and your mental gymnastics won't change the fact that death really is better than prison in the U.S.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago

The only way I as a pink drunken elephant could do anything about it is if I butchered millions of people in a brutal civil war to shut down the entire jail system and violently overthrow the U.S. government.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If that's how you interpret "pro life" then you must be okay with this execution if you're "pro choice". The state "choose" to execute this man after all.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If that's how you interpret "pro choice" no wonder you want control over women's bodies..?

This seems like a poor choice of articles to discuss abortion in though. And yes, I know you didn't start it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you mean to say it's a bad idea to interpret a political slogan literally and in a different context from where it is meant to be used?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, did you make it past the first sentence in my comment?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

... Yes? Not sure how the second sentence is relevant though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Then exactly what fucking point were you trying to make. If you understood the words I wrote, how did I misinterpret yours? I clearly must have...