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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Texas prisoner was executed on Tuesday night for shooting down a San Antonio convenience store owner after the courts dismissed appeals that the Parole Board inappropriately rejected the application. the inmate's leniency because he was black. 19659002] Christopher Young 34 years old, has never denied murder, which was recorded on a surveillance camera, but said that he was drunk and had not the intention to kill Hasmukh "Hash" Patel 53 years old during an attempted robbery. after drinking nearly two dozen beers and then taking cocaine that Sunday morning, November 21, 2004.
Young and Patel knew each other, and Patel's family members said they did not want to that Young be killed.
The final declaration of the death chamber, Young said that he loved the family of his victim "as they like me."
"Make sure the children in the world know that I am being executed and these children," he said.
As the lethal dose of pentobarbital sedation began to take effect, he swore twice and said the drug was burning his throat.
"I taste it in my throat," he says
Then he slipped into unconsciousness by saying something incomprehensible. He began to take superficial breaths. In less than 30 seconds, he stopped moving and was pronounced dead at 18:38.
Twenty-five minutes had passed since he had received the lethal dose
Young became the eighth prisoner put to death this year in Texas one more than 2017 in the the busiest capital in the country.
His lawyers sued the Texas Pardons and Parole Board after the panel dismissed a plea of leniency in which the lawyers argued that Young was no longer the young man that he was when he He was on death row.
In their federal lawsuit for civil rights violations, Young's lawyers argued that a white Texas detainee, Thomas Whitaker had received a commutation of sentence earlier this year. his execution was imminent for the murder of his mother and brother. Young is black and the race improperly "seems to be the driving force in this case," said attorney David Dow in the appeal that sought to delay the sentence.
A federal judge in Houston dismissed the lawsuit and refused to stop the execution, and then hours later, on Tuesday 5, the US Circuit Court of Appeal dismissed the case. appeal of this decision. Young's lawyers did not bring the case to the US Supreme Court.
Stephen Hoffman, an assistant to the Texas Attorney General, said the lawsuit was a delaying, improper, speculative and "legally and factually deficit" tactic. The lawyers argued that he was no longer a member of the Street Bloods gang, had matured in prison and hoped to show others "look where you can end up."
"I did not know the death row" of the prison. "You have to talk about it, you have a whole new generation, you have to stop it, not just the executions but the crimes, no one is talking to these kids, I can not bring back Hash but I can do something He said that he excelled at chess and violin, cello and bass, but "all that stopped" and he joined the Bloods when he was about 8 years old after his father was killed in burglary
According to court documents, Young sexually assaulted a woman in her apartment with her three young children present, then forced her to leave with her in her car. managed to escape, and records show that he drove a block to the Mini Mart Food where the owner Patel was shot dead.Young was arrested 90 minutes later after picking up a prostitute and drove to a crack house where the stolen car was parked outside and spotted by San Antonio police
Young told AP that the shooting came from an argument one of his three children and the store owner. He said that the woman, however, lied to him.
"He was not a bad guy at all," Young said of Patel. "I was inebriated, we knew the victim, the whole confrontation went wrong, I thought he was looking for a gun and I shot." [19659002] Members of the Patel family refused to attend Young's execution. In a statement, they said that Young forever changed their lives but that when they think about what Hasmukh represented, and the values he has instilled in his family, we can look for good in people, including looking good in Christopher Young "
They added that their clemency demands for Young" sadly "were rejected.
At least seven other Texas inmates have dates of execution in the coming months.
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