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Texas executes sheriff's sergeant killer
UPI ^ | 3-11-10 | Unattributed

Posted on 03/11/2010 7:52:49 PM PST by smokingfrog

Texas Thursday executed Joshua Maxwell for the robbery and murder of Bexar County, Texas, Sheriff's Sgt. Rudolfo Lopes.

Maxwell and his girlfriend at the time, Tessie McFarland, killed Lopes and an Indiana man, Robby Bott, during a 2000 crime spree that began in Indiana and ended following a shootout with police in San Francisco, the San Antonio News-Express said.

McFarland, 30, is serving a life sentence.

Before he was put to death in Huntsville, Texas, Thursday, Maxwell apologized to his victims and their families.

"I hurt a lot of people with the decisions I made," he said. "I can't be more sorry than I am right now.

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: execution; rudolfolopes

1 posted on 03/11/2010 7:52:49 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

I bet he was sorry..... Sorry that he got caught and was about to be executed.


2 posted on 03/11/2010 7:55:07 PM PST by sport
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To: smokingfrog

He won’t be doing that anymore.


3 posted on 03/11/2010 7:55:36 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: smokingfrog

Cool!
Say hi to Teddy.


4 posted on 03/11/2010 7:57:35 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: smokingfrog

Eight years from conviction is seven years too long.


5 posted on 03/11/2010 8:12:31 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: smokingfrog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE


6 posted on 03/11/2010 8:21:38 PM PST by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911)
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To: smokingfrog; HuntsvilleTxVeteran

I believe this murderer was captured in California after a pursuit.

Glad we could help.


7 posted on 03/11/2010 8:29:09 PM PST by dragnet2 (Millions of unionized government employees are gang raping America)
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To: Parley Baer

Keep up the good work Texas!


8 posted on 03/11/2010 10:54:18 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: HuntsvilleTxVeteran
"Eight years from conviction is seven years too long."

From two posts earlier: "Two Liberty County [TX] sheriff's deputies were shot in a neighborhood near Dayton and their suspected shooter is dead, KPRC Local 2 reported." That soon enough?

9 posted on 03/12/2010 5:27:20 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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