Texas executes inmate for killing man during robbery of wallet containing $140 in 1990

Brent Ray Brewer, 53, eventually died after receiving a lethal injection at Huntsville State Penitentiary for the death of Robert Laminack in April 1990.. The inmate was pronounced dead at 6:39 pm local time, 15 minutes after the chemicals began flowing.

Prosecutors had said Laminack, 66, took Brewer and his girlfriend 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 US Supreme Court refused to intervene on the inmate’s claims that prosecutors had relied on false and discredited expert testimony at his 2009 resentencing trial.

His last words were: “I would like to tell the victim’s family that I could never find the words to fix what I have broken.“.

On April 26, 1990, Brewer, then 19, and his girlfriend, Krystie Lynn Nystrom, approached a flooring manufacturing company in Amarillo, Texas, owned by his intended victim, Robert Laminack. who was 66 years old.

As demonstrated at trial, Brewer and Nystrom asked Laminack if he could take them with his vehicle to a local Salvation Army business, to which the man agreed.

During the journey, according to prosecutors, Brewer fatally stabbed Laminack and stole the $140 he had in his wallet.

After the incident, the two individuals fled to Red Oak, a town near Dallas and about 380 miles from Amarillo. They were arrested on May 8.

Brewer was sentenced to death a year later, while Nystrom is serving a life sentence in a Texas prison.

Approximately two hours before the scheduled execution, The United States Supreme Court refused to intervene in the inmate’s claims that prosecutors had relied on false and discredited expert testimony at his 2009 resentencing trial.

Brewer’s lawyers had alleged that a prosecution expert, Richard Coons, falsely claimed that Brewer would be a future danger, a legal conclusion necessary to impose a death sentence.

That way, The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals dismissed an appeal on that issue without reviewing the merits of the argument.saying the claim should have been raised previously.

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