Texas executed an inmate for murdering a police officer during a robbery

The state of Texas he performed Robert Jennings today by murder a policeman during the theft of an erotic bookshop in Houston in 1988.

Jennings, a 61-year-old black man, he was pronounced dead at 18:33 local time (Thursday, 00:33 GMT) after receiving a lethal injection into Huntsville Prison, notified to the Department of Criminal Justice of Texas.

His last words were: "For my friends and family, it was a nice trip. To the family of the policeman, I hope that this (the execution) will give them peace and hope that they are well. Enjoy the moments of life because we never get them back. "

Jennings was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder committed on July 19 of the previous year by the police Elston Howard, who was then 24 years old.

According to court documents, Jennings and his friend David Lee Harvell went out that night to a strip clubbut when they were not allowed to enter because they did not have any documents, they chose to steal an erotic bookstore.

When Jennings entered the company with a revolver in his hand, Howard was found with the employee arrested, what minutes before he had illegally showed badgraphic movies to an infiltration agent.

The executed killed the policeman with four shots and then stole the clerk of the collection.

Returning with Harvell and telling him what had happened, his accomplice and his friend shot him in the hand and threw him out of the vehicle.

Jennings was found a few hours later at the hospital Houston who went to heal the gunshot wound and confessed to killing the policeman.

For this crimeJennings, who, in 1988, was 30 years old and had been jailed several times for various robberies, He was sentenced to death; while Harvell was sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Jennings' was the first performance of the year in the countrywho in 2018 executed 25 prisoners.

Since the reinstatement of the death penalty by the Supreme Court in 1976, the country has been executed 1,491 inmates, including 559 in Texas.

With information from EFEUSA