A Texas man who said his death sentence was based on false and unscientific expert testimony was executed Thursday evening for killing a man during a robbery decades ago.

Brent Ray Brewer, 53, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the April 1990 death of Robert Laminack. The inmate was pronounced dead at 6:39 p.m. local time, 15 minutes after the chemicals began flowing.

Prosecutors had said Laminack, 66, gave Brewer and his girlfriend a ride to a Salvation Army location in Amarillo when he was stabbed in the neck and robbed of $140.

Brewer’s execution came hours after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to step in over the inmate’s claims that prosecutors had relied on false and discredited expert testimony at his 2009 resentencing trial.

  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    There are absolutely crimes worthy of removing you from the species, permanently.

    But until we have a system that can do it with 100% accuracy it shouldnt be an option.

    Blackstone’s Ratio is very relevant here, “It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”

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      I don’t disagree. There are some sick people in this world that create chaos and torture people for the remaining time here. I don’t believe they deserve life.

      However being framed for that is the problem. And I think it’s a very hard teeter totter to walk without problems or mistakes.

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        Which is why I said that until we have a system that can dispense that justice with 100% accuracy and no error, it shouldnt be an option.