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| Texas Inmate Beazley Set to Die |
| By AP |
| Published: 08/16/2001 |
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As a teen-ager, Napoleon Beazley was president of his senior class, a star football player - one of the most popular kids in his small Texas hometown of Grapeland. But he admits he wasn't squeaky clean. He sold small amounts of cocaine and carried a handgun, seemingly minor offenses compared to what happened April 19, 1994 - when he killed a 63-year-old man while trying to steal his car.Beazley, now 25, was scheduled to die by injection Wednesday night. His capital murder case has drawn international attention because he was a teen-ager at the time of the slaying and the victim's son is a judge on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.The case has also fractured the U.S. Supreme Court, drawn a gaggle of death penalty opponents and led to renewed criticism about Texas' criminal justice system. Beazley was convicted of murdering John Luttig, a prominent businessman whose son, J. Michael Luttig, is on the appeals court in Richmond, Va.Luttig and his wife were returning home to Tyler when the slaying occurred in front of their house. He took keys to the car and then abandoned the car a short distance away after hitting a wall, damaging the vehicle. Beazley also fired at the victim's wife. He missed, but she played dead while her husband lay beside her. The European Union, through the Belgian Embassy in Washington, urged Texas Gov. Rick Perry to stop the execution. |
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