Posted on 08/11/2015 3:25:15 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas inmate Daniel Lee Lopez has been trying to speed up his execution since being sent to death row five years ago for striking and killing a police lieutenant with an SUV during a chase.
On Wednesday, he's hoping to get his wish.
The 27-year-old prisoner is set to die in Huntsville after getting court approval to drop his appeals. A second inmate scheduled to be executed this week in Texas, the nation's most active death penalty state, won a court reprieve Tuesday.
Lopez is facing lethal injection for the 2009 death of Corpus Christi Lt. Stuart Alexander. The 47-year-old officer was standing in a grassy area on the side of a highway where he had put spike strips when he was struck by the sport utility vehicle Lopez was fleeing in.
Last week from death row Lopez said: "It's a waste of time just sitting here. I just feel I need to get over with it."
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Not if Susan Sarandon has anything to say about it!
Better send it Next-Day Mail.
Bye, Bye and buy bonds!
He had a record of “indecency with a child” and ran a stop sign, at which point he fled. He was a registered sex offender.
shades of Tombstone...
How about the dentist who murdered Cecil?
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Oh Yeah?!
How about the dentist who murdered Cecil?
Drink!
Lest we forget your great thread :-)
You honor me. Since it is the current home of the Undead Thread, obscurity has been delayed.
{Sigh}
Drink!
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