Texas executes elderly man

[George K]

Elderly Texas man executed for killing police officer in 1990

A 78-year-old man was executed Thursday night in Texas for killing a police officer in 1990.
Carl Wayne Buntion had been behind bars for more than three decades after killing Houston police officer James Irby at a traffic stop.
Prison workers injected Buntion with a fatal dose of pentobarbital at Texas’ death row prison in Huntsville. He was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m.
“I wanted the Irby family to know one thing: I do have remorse for what I did,” Buntion said just before he was killed. “I pray to God that they get the closure for me killing their father and Ms. Irby’s husband.”
The U.S. Supreme Court was one of several courts that denied appeals from Buntion’s attorneys.
Buntion was a passenger in a vehicle when Irby, 37, pulled the car over in June 1990. The car reportedly had heroin inside, and Buntion was out of jail on parole. While Irby was talking to the driver, Buntion shot him in the head.

Um. He was 46 at the time of the murder.

[Horace]

More ridiculous outcomes of a culturally untenable style of punishment. The best thing about the death penalty is that it provides so much meaning to the lives of Innocence Project types.

[Mik]

If 34 years of a death row existence is not cruel and unusual, I don't know what is. 23 hours alone in a cell.

Just do away with it.

[Jolly]

Nah, they just need to prove guilt beyond all reasonable doubt and kill them quickly.

[Doctor Phibes]

A life sentence followed by an execution. Double whammy!