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| Convict goes to his death professing innocence |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 11/22/2004 |
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A 30-year-old Death Row inmate who continued to say he was innocent while in the death chamber was executed last Wednesday night for fatally shooting a man who tried to stop a robber of a Houston, Texas, convenience store 10 years ago. Anthony Fuentes denied he killed Robert Tate, 28, but he acknowledged he was with three companions when they were holding up the store. In the death chamber, Fuentes said repeatedly that he had found peace. Among those watching him die were his grandfather and two sisters. Two of Tate's brothers watched from another room. "It is wrong for the prosecutors to lie and make witnesses say what they need them to say. The truth has always been there. I just hope everybody has their peace. Today I get mine." He was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m., the 23rd Texas prisoner to die by lethal injection this year. |
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