Posted on 09/25/2024 2:31:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Texas man who had waived his right to appeal his death sentence received a lethal injection Tuesday evening for killing his 3-month-old son more than 16 years ago, one of five executions scheduled within a week’s time in the U.S.
Travis Mullis, 38, was pronounced dead at 7:01 p.m. CDT following the injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for stomping to death his son Alijah in January 2008. “I'd like to thank everyone ... that accepted me for the man I became during my best and worst moments,” Mullis, while strapped to the death chamber gurney, said after his spiritual adviser offered a brief prayer over him.
He also thanked prison officials and staff for “changes made across the system” that allowed “even the men on death row to show it is possible to be rehabilitated and not deemed a threat and not the men we were when we came into this system.”
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It took 26 years??? Justice delayed is justice denied.
Flush twice
16 years...regardless- the guy attempted to expedite the situation:
“He added that while he “took the legal steps to expedite to include assisted suicide, I don’t regret this decision, to legally expedite this process. ... I do regret the decision to take the life of my son.”
“Authorities said Mullis, then 21 and living in Brazoria County, drove to nearby Galveston with his son after fighting with his girlfriend. Mullis parked his car and sexually assaulted his son. After the infant began to cry uncontrollably, Mullis began strangling the child before taking him out of the car and stomping on his head, according to authorities.”
There are no words...
I respect that, the only way he came to that decision was is really accepting that Jesus had forgiven him.
Infant!? That means the kid was barely past legal abortion age, this is cruel and unusual punishment. How do you go straight from “This is fine” to “This is death penalty”?
What a charmer.
My dad beat my three month old twin to death and all he got was a dishonorable discharge and two years in prison.
I am so sorry. That is horrible. I also don’t understand why they thought that punishment was valid.
If you don’t mind my asking, did you ever have any kind of relationship with your father?
Mullis’ execution proceeded after one of his attorneys, Shawn Nolan, said Tuesday afternoon that he planned no late appeals in a bid to spare the inmate’s life. Nolan also said in a statement that Texas would be executing a “redeemed man” who has always accepted responsibility for committing “an awful crime.
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Sorry Mr. Nolan, millions of us plain ole citizens don’t agree with you that a man who stomps his son’s head in the ground after raping him deserves any “redemption” nor should he get a bullet in the head given a slow go on a noose would be best.
I believe that he repented and accepted Jesus, too-I also believe that death was appropriate for his crime-if someone tortures and murders a child, their life should be taken for that crime...
Demonic
There are no words...
VERMIN
He STOMPED a baby to death? Should have been put to death a long time ago.
Yet in some states if he had done this 3 months prior then there would be no prosecution.
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