HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) – A Texas detainee was executed on Thursday night for the murder of the parents of his ex-wife and brother, who was a police officer, nearly 30 years ago.

Billie Wayne Coble received a lethal injection at Huntsville State Penitentiary for the shootings of Robert and Zelda Vicha, in August 1989, and their son, Bobby Vicha, in separate homes in Axtell, North Carolina. is from Waco.

Coble, 70, one day described by a prosecutor as having "a heart full of scorpions," was the oldest inmate executed by Texas since the state's return to capital punishment in 1982.

Asked to make a final statement, Coble replied, "It will be $ 5."

He told the five witnesses he had chosen to attend the meeting that he loved them, then repeated, "It will be $ 5." Coble nodded to the witnesses and added, "Pay attention ".

He gasped several times and began to snore.

As Coble ended his statement, his son, a friend and a daughter-in-law became emotional and violent. They were screaming obscenities, beating their fists and hitting other people in the area of ​​the witnesses of death.

The officers intervened and the witnesses continued to resist. They were finally transferred to a courtyard and the two men handcuffed.

"Why are you doing this?" Asked the woman. "They just killed his dad."

While the controls were under control outside, a single dose of pentobarbital was administered to Coble. His death was pronounced 11 minutes later at 18:24.

The spokesman of the Texas Criminal Justice Department, Jeremy Desel, said the two men had been arrested on charges of being arrested and detained at Walker County Jail.

Earlier Thursday, the US Supreme Court rejected Coble's request to delay execution.

His lawyers told the High Court that the lawyers in Coble's original trial were negligent in recognizing his guilt by failing to make a defense of insanity before a jury that found him guilty of murder qualified.

A court of appeal had previously rejected Coble's request to delay Thursday's execution and the Texas Board of Pardons and Lyrics had rejected his switch request.

Coble "does not deny that he bears the responsibility of the victim, but he nonetheless wants his lawyers to present a defense on his behalf," said his lawyer, A. Richard Ellis, in his appeal to the Supreme Court.

In his request for clemency addressed to the Board of Graces and Words, Ellis stated that his client was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from his naval experience during the Vietnam War and had been convicted in part at because of the misleading testimony of two prosecution witnesses on it 's would be a future danger.

Coble is the third inmate killed this year in the United States and the second in Texas, the country's most-visited capital punishment state.

"This is not a happy night," said Barry Johnson, McLennan County Attorney. "It's the end of a horror story for the Vicha family."

J.R. Vicha, Bobby Vicha's son, said it would be a relief to know that the execution finally took place after years of delay.

"Nevertheless, their way of doing things is more humane than what he did to my family. That's not what he deserves, but it will be good to know that we have as much justice as the law allows, "said 11-year-old JR Vicha when he was tied up and threatened by Coble at murder.

Prosecutors said that Coble, upset by the ongoing divorce, had abducted his wife, Karen Vicha. He was arrested and released on bail.

Nine days after the abduction, Coble went to Karen Vicha's home, where he handcuffed and tied up his three daughters and J.R. Vicha. He then went to the homes of Robert and Zelda Vicha, aged 64 and 60 respectively, and Bobby Vicha, 39, who lived nearby and shot them. After Karen Vicha returned home, Coble removed her and drove away, assaulted her and threatened to rape her and kill her. He was arrested after being wrecked in the neighboring county of Bosque as a result of a lawsuit by the police.

Coble was convicted of aggravated murder in 1990. In 2007, the US Circuit's Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal ordered a new trial. At his new trial in 2008, a second jury sentenced him to death.

Crawford Long, the former deputy chief prosecutor for McLennan County who helped Colee try again in 2008, said the description of "his heart full of scorpions" suited him perfectly.

"He had no remorse at all," said Long, who retired in 2010.

J.R. Vicha, 40, still lives in the Waco area. He eventually became a prosecutor for eight years, a career choice inspired in part by his father, a police sergeant in Waco at the time of his assassination. His grandfather was a retired plumber and his grandmother worked for a pediatrician.

Vicha, now a lawyer in private practice, is trying to rename part of a highway near her father's home.

"Every time I meet someone who knows it (his father and his grandparents), it's a nice feeling." And when I hear stories about them, it always gives the impression that they are still here, "said Vicha.

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