Texas man who said death sentence was based on discredited testimony is executed for 1990 killing

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Texas man who said death sentence was based on discredited testimony is executed for 1990 killing
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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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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.

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?

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

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

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...

All I know is I'm confused. 🙂

I was being too clever, perhaps, for lemmy.

Buddy, you being "too clever" is not your issue lol