Carl Wayne Buntion, the first person in Texas executed in 2022, was the oldest inmate on the state’s death row and his lawyers had reported he had mounting health problems. The U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal to pause the execution Thursday.
Carl Wayne Buntion, who murdered Houston police officer James Irby, pictured, during a 1990 traffic stop, is scheduled to be executed April 21, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced Tuesday.Carl Wayne Buntion, convicted in the 1990 slaying of a Houston police officer, was executed Thursday evening in Huntsville — as lawyers battled until the last minute to stop his death, even if temporarily.
“There was no shootout — there was a murder,” she said as nearby anti-death penalty demonstrators denounced her name. She hoped that with Buntion’s death, Irby’s family could find peace. “Buntion has suffered under such conditions for decades,” he wrote. “When efforts to administer the death penalty produce results such as this, it raises serious questions about whether that practice complies with the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.”
University of Texas at Austin professor Barbara Laubenthal flipped off police officers after witnessing the execution as a friend of Buntion. She decried the engine noise as “disrespectful.” Buntion was 46 and a recent parolee when Irby pulled over the heroin-toting Pontiac that he rode in, according to court records. He shot Irby, 37, in the head with a revolver as the officer spoke to the driver. He shot him again, twice, in the back after he collapsed to the ground.
Police Chief Troy Finner joined the officers outside the unit, rather than witness the execution. His remarks following the death focused on supporting the family and the closure they must feel.
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