Killer of 3 Put to Death in 12th Execution of Year

A 28-year-old Texas man was put to death by lethal injection in Huntsville for killing three men in 1999 outside a Fort Worth convenience store.

Lamont Reese was condemned for shooting the three men on March 1, 1999, with an assault rifle after they talked to his girlfriend.

Reese claimed he had no part in the murders and again protested his innocence in a final statement while strapped to a gurney in the death chamber. “Whether you believe it or not, I did not kill them,” he said.

Reese was the 12th person executed in Texas this year. Since resuming capital punishment in 1982, Texas has executed 367 prisoners -- a total that leads the nation.