Benjamin Stone was executed by the State of Texas for two murders
According to court documents Benjamin Stone would get into an argument with his ex wife Parsy Stone and would strangle her and her twelve year old daughter Keitha Coney. Both were also sexually assaulted
Benjamin Stone would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Benjamin Stone would be executed by lethal injection on September 25 1997
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Benjamin Stone Case
Texas prison officials have completed the state’s 28th execution of the year, putting a Corpus Christi man to death by injection for raping and murdering his ex-wife and 12-year-old stepdaughter in 1995. Ben Stone said he wanted to die for the crime and filed no legal appeals to delay his death.
He offered no final words before his execution and was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. Stone was convicted of capital murder last year in the slayings on July 1, 1995, of Patsy Stone and her daughter, Keitha Van Coney. The two were raped and strangled in their Corpus Christi home.
According to court records, Stone was arrested the day after the crime when he called police from a roadside park alongside Interstate 37 and confessed to the slayings. He represented himself in the appeals process and did not file any legal documents on his behalf with the Court of Criminal Appeals. A small crowd protested the execution outside the prison.
JoAnne Gavin of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty says, ‘A man who says that lethal injection is the only thing that will bring him peace evidently has some severe mental problems, which, if they had been treated, perhaps the murders would not have occurred.’ Prison spokesman David Nunnelee says Stone requested only a Coke for his final meal
