Some of those who are now executed or marked for death for crimes years or decades in the...
Maura Irby addresses the media with her daughter, Cally after Carl Wayne Buntion was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville on Thursday, April 21, 2022. The 78-year-old gunned down Irby’s husband, motorcycle officer James Irby, during a June evening traffic stop on a Northside street. Buntion, housed at the Polunsky Unit in Livingston, was the oldest inmate on Texas’ death row and has mounting health problems.
Kristin Houlé Cuellar, executive director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, which published the report, described the administration of capital punishment as a"lethal lottery.""... I wanted the Irby family to know one thing, I do have remorse for what I did. Ms. Irby, the little one-year-old girl, I can't remember her name, Cody was three and she was one when I took their father's life away.
New death sentences are also down in Texas with just two this year. In 2014, 11 people were sentenced to death, while just 12 were sentenced total from 2019 through 2022. The high was 48 in 1999.
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