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| Texas Death Row Inmate Executed |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/29/2002 |
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A Texas man was executed April 18 for killing a 22-year-old woman in a scheme to steal a gun collection from a Houston-area home nearly 13 years ago. Gerald Casey, a twice-convicted burglar, did not give a final statement before he was given the lethal injection. Casey, 47, had hoped to sell the stolen weapons to raise money so he and his girlfriend could go to Florida, according to testimony at his capital murder trial. The girlfriend, Carla Smith, received a 10-year prison sentence for her part in the plot. 'I wanted to see him suffer,' the victim's mother, Linda Howell, said after the execution. 'It was very, very extremely disappointing. We watched him close his eyes. ... And that was that. Too easy.' Sonya Howell was shot nine times during the July 10, 1989, robbery at a mobile home in New Caney, northeast of Houston. The victim was a friend of Smith. Dozens of assault rifles, deer rifles, shotguns and pistols were taken from the doublewide trailer. All belonged to Howell's boyfriend, authorities said. When arrested for murder, Casey already had been to prison twice for burglary. Smith testified at Casey's 1991 trial in exchange for the 10-year sentence. She was paroled after eight years. Casey was the ninth inmate put to death in Texas this year. |
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