Post by Anja Nieser on Sept 11, 2006 17:55:47 GMT -5
Cocaine addict set to die for 1991 Houston slaying
A violent rampage that began 15 years ago in Huntsville, leaving 2 people dead and a third seriously wounded, could come full circle with an execution tomorrow.
Convicted killer Farley Charles Matchett is set to die tomorrow night in the Texas death chamber in Huntsville. The 43-year-old inmate was convicted in the 1991 fatal beating and stabbing of his 52-year-old uncle, Uries Anderson, at Anderson's Houston home.
Matchett also had a life prison term for killing a 74-year-old woman in Huntsville and leaving a 91 year-old Huntsville woman with brain damage in a beating that got him 99 years in prison.
All 3 crimes were commited the same week in July 1991.
Matchett would be the 21st Texas prisoner to receive lethal injection this year. The total already exceeds the 19 inmates Texas put to death in 2005. A record 40 were executed in 2000.
Matchett's attorneys are asking the courts to block the execution, and they've asked Governor Rick Perry for a reprieve.
On the Net: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Death Row, www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm
Farley Matchett, www.ccadp.org/farleymatchett.htm
(source : Associated Press)
A violent rampage that began 15 years ago in Huntsville, leaving 2 people dead and a third seriously wounded, could come full circle with an execution tomorrow.
Convicted killer Farley Charles Matchett is set to die tomorrow night in the Texas death chamber in Huntsville. The 43-year-old inmate was convicted in the 1991 fatal beating and stabbing of his 52-year-old uncle, Uries Anderson, at Anderson's Houston home.
Matchett also had a life prison term for killing a 74-year-old woman in Huntsville and leaving a 91 year-old Huntsville woman with brain damage in a beating that got him 99 years in prison.
All 3 crimes were commited the same week in July 1991.
Matchett would be the 21st Texas prisoner to receive lethal injection this year. The total already exceeds the 19 inmates Texas put to death in 2005. A record 40 were executed in 2000.
Matchett's attorneys are asking the courts to block the execution, and they've asked Governor Rick Perry for a reprieve.
On the Net: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Death Row, www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm
Farley Matchett, www.ccadp.org/farleymatchett.htm
(source : Associated Press)