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| Texas Parolee Executed for Beaumont Drug Deal Slaying |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/03/2002 |
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A Dallas man was executed for a robbery-slaying he committed during a drug deal while he was on parole. Calvin Eugene King, 48, was the 28th Texas inmate to receive lethal injection this year and the second in as many days. In a brief final statement before his execution Wednesday, King muttered, 'I want to say God forgives as I forgive and God is the greatest. Thank you.' King was executed for the fatal stabbing of Billy Wayne Ezell, 21, more than eight years ago. Court records show Ezell was lured to a Beaumont motel Feb. 26, 1994, where he was stabbed, beaten and robbed by King and a partner, Leonard Johnson, also of Dallas. Johnson pleaded guilty and received a life prison term. King got a death sentence. 'It was a was a very brutal crime,' said Ramon Rodriguez, the Jefferson County assistant district attorney who prosecuted King. 'We're talking dozens of stab wounds, and then being bludgeoned with a table lamp.' King, a landscaper, had been on parole for about five months after serving four years of a 25-year prison term for burglary in Dallas County. He earlier had multiple convictions for theft, but he was released on parole or mandatory supervision during a time when Texas prisons were overcrowded. The U.S. Supreme Court refused Wednesday to review King's case. |
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