Posted on 02/08/2006 4:46:18 PM PST by NapkinUser
Convicted torture killer Robert Neville, Jr., 31, was executed just after 6 p.m. Wednesday in Huntsville for the 1998 slaying of Amy Robinson, 19, of Arlington, a mentally impaired woman with whom he once worked at a grocery store.
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the execution earlier Wednesday.
Prosecutors say Neville and Michael Wayne Hall, who is also on death row, kidnapped Robinson as she bicycled to work and took her to a remote area of Tarrant County where she was tortured and then shot to death.
Neville explained in a TV interview that he and Hall killed the woman "for the adrenaline rush" and that Robinson was used for "target practice."
Neville was the first of three prisoners scheduled for execution over the next 15 days.
Next week, 32-year-old death row inmate Clyde Smith faces execution for the robbery and slaying of a Houston taxi driver in 1992.
It only took Texas 8 years to put him down? I guess Ron White wasn't kidding when he said "many states are trying to do away with the death penalty...my state is setting up an express lane".
yup ,... kinda like throwing a used tissue into a fire
... next
"And another one bites the dust, hey hey!!"
Like cCharles Barkley said, "If I'm governor there wouldn't be no death row, there'd be death week."
Good riddance.
Yippie for Ron White and the Blue Collar Comdey ...
Git-R-Done!!!
jane
He confessed.
Robinson was used for "target practice."
sickening, i can only imagine what she went through...
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