Long Overdue...Justice finally served.
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 2:17 am
Texas executes man despite opposition from Mexico
A Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department to halt the punishment.
Edgar Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24.
Asked by a warden if he had a final statement, he mumbled "no" and shook his head. As the lethal dose of pentobarbital began taking effect, he took a few breaths and then made one slightly audible snore before all movement stopped. He was pronounced dead 17 minutes after the drug was administered, at 9:32 p.m. CST.
The execution, the first this year in the nation's most active death penalty state, was delayed more than three hours while the U.S. Supreme Court considered last-ditch appeals.
Tamayo never looked toward Gaddis' mother, two brothers and two other relatives who watched through a window.
"He's a coward just like when he shot my brother in the back of the head and he died a coward," Glen Gaddis said.
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c1 ... 0e2e51e03d
I worked at the same substation as Guy. I saw him several nights a week, when I was working "overtime". He was a super nice guy and very good with folks. He made a mistake and it cost him his life. Well, finally...they got around to executing the piece of shit who killed him.
I'm happy and sad....all at the same time.
A Mexican national was executed Wednesday night in Texas for killing a Houston police officer, despite pleas and diplomatic pressure from the Mexican government and the U.S. State Department to halt the punishment.
Edgar Tamayo, 46, received a lethal injection for the January 1994 fatal shooting of Officer Guy Gaddis, 24.
Asked by a warden if he had a final statement, he mumbled "no" and shook his head. As the lethal dose of pentobarbital began taking effect, he took a few breaths and then made one slightly audible snore before all movement stopped. He was pronounced dead 17 minutes after the drug was administered, at 9:32 p.m. CST.
The execution, the first this year in the nation's most active death penalty state, was delayed more than three hours while the U.S. Supreme Court considered last-ditch appeals.
Tamayo never looked toward Gaddis' mother, two brothers and two other relatives who watched through a window.
"He's a coward just like when he shot my brother in the back of the head and he died a coward," Glen Gaddis said.
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c1 ... 0e2e51e03d
I worked at the same substation as Guy. I saw him several nights a week, when I was working "overtime". He was a super nice guy and very good with folks. He made a mistake and it cost him his life. Well, finally...they got around to executing the piece of shit who killed him.
I'm happy and sad....all at the same time.