A Texas inmate was put to death on Thursday for the 1992 murder of four people during a drug robbery.
Arthur Brown Jr., 52, was pronounced dead at 6:37 p.m. after receiving the lethal injection at the Huntsville State Penitentiary.
His last words focused on his innocence and that of accomplice Marion Dudley who was executed for the murders in 2006.
Audrey Brown, 21; Jose Tovar, 32; 19-year-old Jessica Quinones, and her unborn child were shot and killed after Brown Jr. bought drugs from Tovar and his wife Rachel who was also shot in the ordeal.
“Texas will kill a second innocent man for a murder that occurred in 1992,” the inmate said moments before the execution.
“What is occurring here tonight is not justice, it's the murder of an innocent man for a murder that occurred in 1992.”
“For the last 30 years, I've proven my innocence to the courts, but the courts blocked me and then refused me access to the ballistics for 20 years; I've proven facts and ballistics to be false. My co-defendant was executed in 2006 and if I'm innocent he was innocent and they killed an innocent man, and the state doesn't want the truth to come out.”
He then concluded “tonight, Texas will kill a second innocent man for a murder that occurred in 1992. I have no further words.”
