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Perry Denies Clemency; Texas Death Row Inmate Executed
Gov. Rick Perry rejected a recommendation that he commute the sentence of a Texas death row inmate convicted in a deadly convenience store holdup and the execution was carried out just after 6 p.m. Thursday in Huntsville.
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HUNTSVILLE (November 19, 2009)--Texas death row inmate Robert Lee Thompson, 34, was executed Thursday evening in Huntsville for his part in a fatal Houston store holdup after Gov. Rick Perry rejected a parole board's recommendation to spare his life because he wasn't the gunman.
Thompson was an accomplice to triggerman Sammy Butler when store clerk Mansoor Bhai Rahim Mohammed, 29, was gunned during a robbery down 13 years ago.
Butler received life in prison but a jury sentenced Thompson to death.
Thompson's lawyer told the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles that Thompson's punishment under the Texas law of parties wasn't fair and the panel voted 5-2 Wednesday to recommend that his sentence be commuted to life.
Perry didn't have to follow their recommendation and he chose not to.
The execution was carried out Thursday evening less than an hour after Perry refused to go along with the panel's recommendation.
Under the state’s law of parties, all of those involved in a crime share equal responsibility for what happens, regardless of the role each of them played.
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There is a lot of hatred and bitterness in many of these comments. I wonder if the comments don't say more about the people who make them than they do about the subject. Think about it.
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If him not b guilty him would not be dead. If you do a crime you pay the penalty. Just because one pleas down to life doesn't mean another should go free or get a lesser sentence. For those of you who try to rationalize the death sentence or not you must remember that, THEY MURDERED ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. You don't want to die by lethal injection then dont do the crime. How hard is that.
