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The state of Texas, United States, on Tuesday (11) defendant Alvin Braziel, aged 43, for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife in 1993.
Braziel was pronounced dead at 19:19. (local time) after receiving a lethal injection in Huntsville Prison (near Houston), according to information provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Before receiving the injection, the defendant summoned a few last words to apologize to the woman that he raped for "killing her husband".
On the evening of September 21, 1993, after dinner, the newlyweds, Douglas and Lora White, took a walk around Eastfield College, near Dallas, Texas.
Among the shrubs, Braziel, 18, was equipped with a revolver and intended to steal it, but the victims were not with money.
The criminal forced them to kneel and when they began to pray – he was 27 and she was 23 – Alvin Braziel asked, "Where is your God now?" Before shooting at the head and chest of the man, according to the court documents. Then he raped the woman.
The crime remained unsolved until 2001, when the authorities linked Braziel's DNA to that of the victim.
At that time, he was serving a badual badault on a 15-year-old girl in 1996.
Alvin Braziel was the 13th and last run of the year in Texas and the 24th at the national level .
Next Thursday, another execution is planned, but this time in Florida. Jose Antonio Jimenez will receive a lethal injection for the murder of a 63-year-old woman during a robbery committed at her home in 1992.
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