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.
This is gonna sound fucked up, but him being murdered by the state was much more of a mercy than being raped, tortured and enslaved behind bars for the entirety of his natural life because of concern he may have been innocent.
Like people dismiss the state taking away large chunks of people’s lives because of the “at least they’re alive” argument, but you can use that to justify rape and abuse and all sorts of things that are very clearly worse than death.
If I was in his shoes, I’d have demanded expedited execution and so would all of you, if you knew truly what goes on behind bars.
Perhaps you should do something about that “raped, tortured and enslaved” part so the death penalty seems better than prison? Prison is supposed to keep dangerous people away from society and rehabilitate them if possible.
People in prison should be safe from such crimes happening to them.
I really don’t understand how people are okay with this “he’s going to be killed in prison” sentiment of someone is sent there for very bad crimes when his sentence is “prison” and not “death”. Prison should mean being locked away safely from society having time to think about their crimes - nothing else.
Except they aren’t in many cases. We’re failing as a society with our criminal
justicepunishment system.Amen. Nobody deserves to be raped or tortured. People who joke about this happening to prisoners make me sick.
If you cared, why wouldn’t you go out and force them to change instead of arguing on the Internet with an elephant?
The only way I as a pink drunken elephant could do anything about it is if I butchered millions of people in a brutal civil war to shut down the entire jail system and violently overthrow the U.S. government. Is that what you want, or are you demanding I instead submit to your opinion and advocate your perspective and feelings on the matter like some pink drunken robot? As if you ranting on the internet about it has done anything to change the system or save any lives?
Grow the fuck up. My opinion on the matter will not change and your mental gymnastics won’t change the fact that death really is better than prison in the U.S.
I’m not living in the US but in a county with a working prison system. It’s just that a lot of people on here (and reddit) are completely okay with it because they don’t seem to see prisoners as humans to be rehabilitated but more like some abstract beings to be punished so whatever happens to them seems to be okay for them
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Haha well 💁
But that’s the thing. No one should get to make that decision for him, especially if he believed he had a path to exoneration. Maybe he would endure the torture for the chance of seeing the outside one day.
Who are you to decide that for this man?
They already made a decision for him by arresting him, putting him on trial and jailing him.
Your argument is weak.
Your assertion is essentially implying they should just kill every prisoner on account of avoiding what goes on in prison, and because the state should assume they’d want to die anyway.
I’d say your argument is far more ridiculous.
That’s actually exactly what I’m saying and the absurdity is the whole point. The system is so cruel, it’s their only available humane option at this point.
But thanks for showing anything I say goes over your head simply because I hold an opinion you don’t agree with. Makes it obvious you do not deserve my respect or my time.
“The system is so cruel they should just kill them all anyway” is an outlandishly evil and twisted take. Regardless of if you’re making it out of absurdity.
And likewise for showing me that I’m wasting my time arguing with an actual psychopath ✌️
I’m not against the death penalty because of the normal reasons as much as I’m against it because it gives the worst of the worst an easy way out. “Oh it’s okay if I kill a bunch of people, they’ll just kill me if they catch me and I won’t suffer too much.”
This is fair. But I am concerned about being humane and let’s be real, U.S prisons are far worse than death. Even old school executions are more humane than that shit.