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Admitted drug dealer executed for triple slaying in Fort Worth
Associated Press ^ | June 20, 2006 | MICHAEL GRACZYK

Posted on 06/20/2006 6:23:11 PM PDT by Dubya

HUNTSVILLE — Proclaiming his innocence, an admitted drug dealer was executed Tuesday evening for a shooting spree that left three men dead and two others wounded outside a Fort Worth convenience store more than seven years ago.

Lamont Reese, 28, had to be carried into the death chamber.

"I want everyone to know I did not walk to this because this is straight-up murder," he said. "I am not going to play a part in my own murder. No one should have to do that."

He expressed love to his mother and to relatives of the murder victims as they watched from separate windows nearby.

"I do not know all of your names and I don't know how you feel about me," he said addressing the victims' relatives. "And whether you believe it or not, I did not kill them."

He said that he was at peace and he wanted them to be at peace.

"You have to move past it. It is time to move on," he said.

He said he was glad that the execution was occurring and that his time on death row was not "10 or 20 years."

As the drugs began taking effect, he said, "This is some nasty." Then he gasped.

At that moment, his mother, Brenda Reese, began pounding with her fists on the chamber window and began screaming repeatedly, "They killed my baby."

She kicked two holes in the death chamber wall and eventually was removed from the chamber. She sobbed loudly as she walked from the prison and nearly collapsed as she reached the prison administration building across the street.

Reese was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m., eight minutes after the drugs began to flow.

He was the 12th inmate executed this year in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.

Reese, who described himself as "no angel" and acknowledged dealing crack cocaine for years, contended in an earlier interview he wasn't involved in the gunfire outside the convenience store the evening of March 1, 1999.

Anthony Roney, 26, Riki Jackson, 17, and Alonzo Stewart, 25, were killed. A 24-year-old man and 13-year-old boy were wounded.

"I was not at the crime," Reese insisted.

Reese's lawyers went to the federal courts to try to block the punishment, citing among their claims a U.S. Supreme Court ruling a week ago that condemned prisoners can file special appeals challenging the lethal injection method under a federal civil rights law after exhausting regular appeals. The high court, however, said inmates would not always be entitled to delays in their executions.

In Reese's case, the justices rejected his appeals about 20 minutes before he was scheduled to be taken to the death chamber.

Evidence at Reese's trial showed his 18-year-old girlfriend, Kareema Kimbrough, walked out of the convenience store about four miles southeast of downtown Fort Worth and drew the attention of several men who were drinking and playing dice outside the place. Reese became angry with the men flirting with Kimbrough.

The couple left, met up with three others, including a pair of juveniles, and armed themselves with handguns and assault rifles. With Kimbrough driving and accompanied also by her 2-year-old son, she dropped off the four near the store.

The gunmen then sprayed the scene with bullets. Kimbrough drove back around, retrieved her friends and they all sped off.

Police were told by the victim of another shooting of people bragging about the convenience store gunfire. That led to the arrests of Reese, Kimbrough and their companions. Detectives found ammunition in Reese's car that matched bullets found at the shooting scene.

Sean Colston, one of the Tarrant County district attorneys who prosecuted Reese, said evidence was clear that Reese was responsible for the slayings.

"When you're dealing with capital punishment, it's not that you get a sense of satisfaction," he said. "I feel it's a just punishment."

Reese grew up in Louisiana where he said he spent much of his childhood in state custody after his mother was sent to prison,

Kimbrough, now 26, is serving a life prison term on a capital murder conviction. The three others, including the two juveniles who were charged as adults, agreed to plea bargains and are serving sentences ranging from 35 to 50 years.

Scheduled to die next in Texas is serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, a former FBI Ten Most Wanted fugitive, set for lethal injection June 27 for the fatal stabbing of Houston-area physician Claudia Benton in December 1998.

Benton is among at least 15 victims police in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Illinois have linked to Resendiz, who became known as the "Railroad Killer" because many of the attacks were near railroad tracks and because he was known to hop on freight trains to travel around the United States.

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Houston & Texas This article is: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3987757.html


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: capitalpunishment; deathpenalty; justice; wod; wodlist
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1 posted on 06/20/2006 6:23:13 PM PDT by Dubya
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To: Dubya

He was a good boy.


2 posted on 06/20/2006 6:25:07 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Dubya
"They killed my baby."

You weren't too concerned about "your baby" when he was out kickin' it in the streets, eh lady?

Next!

3 posted on 06/20/2006 6:26:33 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Dubya
At that moment, his mother, Brenda Reese, began pounding with her fists on the chamber window and began screaming repeatedly, "They killed my baby."

Yes, Brenda, we most certainly did, but he was no baby and you were not much of mother.

4 posted on 06/20/2006 6:27:23 PM PDT by RCNOVA
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To: Dubya

Only seven years. Getting better.


5 posted on 06/20/2006 6:27:30 PM PDT by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Unicorn

It just oozes out don't it.


6 posted on 06/20/2006 6:27:44 PM PDT by muawiyah (-)
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To: tuffydoodle

ping


7 posted on 06/20/2006 6:27:51 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Dubya
Evidence at Reese's trial showed his 18-year-old girlfriend, Kareema Kimbrough, walked out of the convenience store about four miles southeast of downtown Fort Worth and drew the attention of several men who were drinking and playing dice outside the place. Reese became angry with the men flirting with Kimbrough.

Either he did it, or his girlfriend was cheating on him with someone who looked just like him.

8 posted on 06/20/2006 6:27:59 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Dubya

Hail to Texas !!!


9 posted on 06/20/2006 6:28:53 PM PDT by llevrok (The next "greatest generation" is now.)
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To: RCNOVA

No matter what kind of a mother she was, he was still her son. I don't fault her for grieving.


10 posted on 06/20/2006 6:30:46 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Dubya

Give my regards to tookie, punk.


11 posted on 06/20/2006 6:32:19 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Dubya

I feel this way. Even if he didnt commit murder he helped ruin many lives selling dope and deserved what he got.


12 posted on 06/20/2006 6:34:03 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: Dubya

Adios, MF


13 posted on 06/20/2006 6:35:07 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: CindyDawg
No matter what kind of a mother she was, he was still her son. I don't fault her for grieving.

I don't fault her for grieving, just for making the absurd claim that "they" killed her baby. "They" executed him after due process found him guilty. If my son killed three innocent people I'd grieve at his execution, but I certainly wouldn't claim the state killed my baby.

14 posted on 06/20/2006 6:35:57 PM PDT by RCNOVA
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To: RCNOVA
Yes, Brenda, we most certainly did, but he was no baby and you were not much of mother.

Or when she dumped him on relatives/State during his childhood.

15 posted on 06/20/2006 6:37:47 PM PDT by writmeister
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To: Dubya

Oh, the horrible abuse these killers must endure after inflicting terrible crimes on society!!! How awful we are to make them suffer so much with a short walk down a hall and facing the evils of an IV needle.

/sarc. off

Justice is served. Next?


16 posted on 06/20/2006 6:38:21 PM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX)
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To: RCNOVA

She probably believes he was innocent. This guy hurt a lot of people.


17 posted on 06/20/2006 6:39:02 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: CindyDawg

Yeah, I suppose you're right. It's hard for a mother to accept her child is a murderer.


18 posted on 06/20/2006 6:40:47 PM PDT by RCNOVA
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To: Unicorn

His mama loved him ....


19 posted on 06/20/2006 6:42:13 PM PDT by dennisw (Fate of Nations)
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To: nuconvert
Only seven years. Getting better.

Texas must have an HOV lane for multiple murderers.  But then how the heck did that crazy Andrea Yates ***** get to skate after killing five children? I'm mystified

20 posted on 06/20/2006 6:46:03 PM PDT by dennisw (Fate of Nations)
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