Texas' oldest death row inmate has been executed for killing a Houston police officer during a traffic stop nearly 32 years ago. Carl Wayne Buntion, 78, was executed at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.
He was condemned over the fatal shooting of Houston police officer James Irby, a near 20-year member of the force, in June 1990. The US supreme court had declined a request by Buntion's attorneys to stop his execution.
"I wanted the Irby family to know one thing: I do have remorse for what I did," Buntion said while strapped to the Texas death chamber gurney.
