State Executes Briton Convicted of Murder
A British citizen convicted of a 1986 rape and murder was put to death despite high-level British government efforts to stall his execution.
There was also a last-minute legal battle for DNA tests that supporters say could have cleared him.
In the latest case to pit a foreign government against the state’s criminal justice system, John “Jackie” Elliott was executed by lethal injection at the Walls prison in Huntsville.
Victim Joyce Munguia’s mother, Matilde Munguia, told reporters later that Elliott’s death had been “too easy” for him, compared with the beating her daughter suffered.
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