Robert Harris was executed by the State of Texas for five murders at a workplace shooting
According to court documents Robert Harris was fire from his place of employment and would return with a gun. Harris would open fire killing Agustin Villasenor, 36, Rhoda Wheeler, 46, Benjamin Villasenor, 32, Dennis Lee, 48, and Roberto Jimenez Jr., 15
Robert Harris would later confess to the murder of a woman months before the workplace shooting
Harris would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Robert Harris would be executed by lethal injection on September 20 2012
Robert Harris Photos
Robert Harris FAQ
When Was Robert Harris Executed
Robert Harris was executed on September 20 2012
Robert Harris Case
An ex-convict who confessed to killing five people at a Dallas-area car wash a week after he was fired from his job there 12 years ago was executed Thursday evening.
Robert Wayne Harris, 40, received lethal injection less than two hours after the U.S. Supreme Court refused appeals to halt his punishment.
Harris expressed love to his brother and three friends who were watching through a window.
“I’m going home. I’m going home,” Harris said. “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be alright. God bless, and the Texas Rangers, Texas Rangers.”
He snored briefly as the lethal dose of pentobarbital began, then all breathing stopped. He was pronounced dead at 6:43 p.m., making him the eighth Texas inmate executed in the nation’s most active capital punishment state. Another execution is set for next week.
Harris was convicted of two of the five slayings in March 2000 at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving. He also was charged with abducting and killing a woman months before the killing spree and led police to her remains.
Harris didn’t deny the slayings, but his lawyer unsuccessfully contended in appeals he was mentally impaired and should be spared because of a Supreme Court ban on execution of mentally impaired people. Attorney Lydia Brandt also argued prosecutors improperly removed black prospective jurors from serving on his trial jury. Harris is black.
Harris died “without ever having had a fair trial” on the issues, Brandt said. Harris’ brother asked to leave the death chamber before the procedure was complete. A half-dozen friends and relatives of the victims also were present, watching in another room.
https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/convicted-killer-robert-wayne-harris-put-to-death/1932087/
