Killer gang member starts SNORING as he is executed in Texas prison

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[Morgana]

A former South Texas street gang member started snoring as he was lethally injected in a Texas prison.

Robert Gene Garza, 30, smiled and blew a kiss to friends and relatives as they entered the death chamber. In a brief final statement, he thanked them for coming and told them he loved them.

'I know it's hard for you. It's not easy. This is a release. Y'all finally get to move on with your lives,' he said.

Garza took several deep breaths as a lethal dose of pentobarbital began flowing into his arms, then began snoring. All movement stopped within less than a minute. He was pronounced dead 26 minutes later, at 8.41pm.

He became the 12th condemned inmate executed this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state.

Garza was a member of a Rio Grande Valley gang known as the Tri-City Bombers even before he was a teenager, and he told police that the 2002 shootings that lead to the deaths of four women was made under duress.

But prosecutors said Garza orchestrated the gang's plan to silence the women, who Garza thought had witnessed another gang crime, and was present when several gang members opened fire on the women when they arrived at their trailer park home after work at a bar. Garza, who was arrested in late January 2003, was convicted under Texas' law of parties, which makes a non-triggerman equally culpable

Garza, who was arrested in late January 2003, was convicted under Texas' law of parties, which makes a non-triggerman equally culpable

'I really didn't have anything to do with the scenario the state was providing,' Garza told The Associated Press recently from death row.

[Slings and Arrows]

TDCJ is running out of the drug pentobarbital this month and the company that makes it refuses to sell them anymore. Don’t know what they’ll use next month.

Hemp and gravity. (Hey, I can dream.)