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| Inmate convicted of killing Texas corrections officer during escape attempt set for execution |
| By therepublic.com |
| Published: 12/03/2013 |
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A man sentenced to 50 years in prison for attempted capital murder had a sufficiently clean disciplinary record that he became eligible for field work outside a Huntsville-area penitentiary. But that privilege wasn't enough for Jerry Martin and another inmate who together made a bold dash for freedom from the onion and pepper patch where they worked — and killed a corrections officer in the process. Martin, 43, is set for execution Tuesday in the 2007 death of 59-year-old Susan Canfield, who had worked for the prison system for seven years. Martin requested appeals in his case be dropped and no actions taken to delay his scheduled lethal injection. "I can't say I fully support him, but he's at peace with his decision," one of Martin's attorneys, David Schulman, said last week. "This is what he wants to do. He's not being pressured into this. He just doesn't want to live the rest of his life in prison." Martin declined to speak with reporters as his execution date neared, but he told a judge in Huntsville earlier this year that he thought he had "done the wrong thing" all his life. "This is my one chance to do the right thing," he said at a June hearing before State District Judge John Delaney. "I've made my peace with God. And I'm grateful that I've had this opportunity ... to accept what I've done wrong and take responsibility for my actions and die with a little bit of dignity. And a lot of people don't have that." Read More. |
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