Alvin Kelly was sentenced to death by the State of Texas for a triple murder
According to court documents police would find the bodies of Jerry Morgan, 30, his wife, Brenda, 25, and their 22-month-old son, Devin inside of their home all dead from gunshot wounds. The triple murder would go unsolved for years until Alvin Kelly ex wife would tell police who was responsible for the murders.
Alvin Kelly was easy to find as he was serving a thirty year sentence for the murder of his roommate.
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Alvin Kelly would be executed by lethal injection on October 14 2008
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A former East Texas truck repair shop owner was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a 22-month-old boy in a spree that also killed the child’s parents.
Alvin Kelly thanked God, expressed love to friends and relatives and denied committing the murder that led to his execution. “I pray this gives you some peace,” Kelly said from the death chamber gurney, looking at four relatives of the slain family. “I know you believe that you’re going to have closure tonight. As I stand before God today, the true judge, I had nothing to do with the death of your family.”
Alvin Kelly Kelly, 57, said he would ask God to not hold that against them. At the same time, he acknowledged killing another man for whom he was serving time when he was charged in the death of the 22-month-old, who died in 1984 in Gregg County, about 100 miles east of Dallas.
As the drugs were administered, he began singing a hymn praising God for coming into his life. “I thank you Lord Jesus for remembering me … ,” he sang as the drugs took effect and he slipped into unconsciousness. Twelve minutes later, at 6:30 p.m. CDT he was pronounced dead.
Kelly was the 10th Texas prisoner executed this year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state. He’s among a dozen condemned inmates scheduled to die over the next six weeks. Another lethal injection is set for Thursday.
The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to review his appeal. His lawyer returned to the high court with another appeal, asking for a reprieve while the justices examine a Tennessee case about whether poor death row inmates seeking clemency from state officials have a right to taxpayer-paid attorneys. About two hours before his scheduled execution, the justices turned down the appeal. Kelly, in an interview last week outside death row, said he didn’t want a reprieve and looked forward to “go home to God.” “That’s what this is all about,” he said. “I have friends and family who are sad. But I am happy. I’m not going to die. I have eternal life.”
Kelly already was serving a 30-year prison term for murder when he was convicted of killing Devin Morgan, the 22-month-old son of Jerry and Brenda Morgan. Relatives discovered the bodies at their home in Spring Hill, a few miles northwest of Longview. Several items also had been taken, including a car, at least five guns and some television and stereo equipment.
The murders went unsolved for six years until a man in Michigan told authorities that his former wife, who also had been married to Kelly, had information about the case. Prosecutors said his ex-wife never felt she could come forward because she feared Kelly, who turned to drug dealing and manufacturing after his truck repair business cratered because of his drug addiction. By then, Kelly said he had found religion in the Gregg County Jail, where he was being held on a drug charge and then was implicated in the aggravated sexual assault of two fellow inmates. He turned down several plea deals to confess to the three slayings, saying that accepting the offers would force him to lie. “If I was guilty, I would plead guilty,” he said from death row. “But I can’t stand before God on a lie.”
He also denied the possibility he was so strung out on methamphetamines at the time of the shootings that he couldn’t recall them. “If I did it, I’d remember,” he said. “If I did it, I’d admit to it.” And while acknowledging he once viewed himself as a gangster, he insisted prosecutors “wanted to make me out to be some John Dillinger.”
Lori Kubecka, who was 10 when her aunt, uncle and nephew were killed, represented her family witnessing Kelly’s execution. “When it comes to what he did to our family, I think he deserves it,” she told the Longview News-Journal. “But it’s been so long. He has sat behind bars for so long now.”
At Kelly’s trial, prosecutors presented evidence that showed Jerry and Brenda Morgan had been city marshal reserve officers, and Kelly’s motive was that they were providing information about him to authorities. He said with his previous murder conviction, plus convictions for burglary, weapons possession, controlled substance delivery and possession and aggravated sexual assault, “I didn’t stand a chance.”
“I still love Texas,” he said. “I love bluebonnets. Texas didn’t put me here. I put me here, by my lifestyle. I’m not pious. I’m not holy. I’m an old sinner.”
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