Texas executed Carl Wayne Buntion, who had been the state’s oldest death row inmate. The 78-year-old died by lethal injection Thursday for murdering Houston police officer James Irby during a traffic stop in 1990.
The 78-year-old died by lethal injection Thursday for murdering Houston police officer James Irby during a traffic stop in 1990.Among those who went to Huntsville for the execution included Irby’s widow, Maura Irby, HPD Chief Troy Finner, and Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.Efforts to halt Buntion’s execution were unsuccessful.
“Almost 32 years later … justice … if you can call it that,” Irby’s daughter, Cally, wrote in a post on theearlier this month. “I would have much rather have had you these last 32 years but I am glad it’s going to finally be over. I am not angry anymore and I am choosing not to be sad.” “I truly hope he can live out his remaining days in prison,” said Kristin Houlé Cuellar, the executive director of theHouston Police Officer James Irby was killed during a traffic stop.
“If you commit capital murder, that’s the only thing you can be put to death for — either killing a police officer, killing multiple people, or killing someone in the commission of an offense,” Griffith told The Texas Newsroom. “Those individuals that do that — that pull the trigger and take someone’s life — they must pay the ultimate sacrifice. You have to be held accountable for those actions that you make.
Buntion had requested the spiritual advisor “be allowed to touch my body and pray out loud once inside the execution chamber.”
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