Brian Robertson was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents Brian Roberson would break into a home across the street from where he lived. Roberson would stab to death James Louis Boots and his wife, 75-year-old Lillian Wallace Boots. Roberson would take a number of items from the home before fleeing
Brian Roberson would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Brian Roberson would be executed by lethal injection on August 9 2000
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Brian Roberson was executed on August 9 2000
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Two condemned killers, one of them a prisoner opponents said was mentally retarded and should not be executed, were put to death Wednesday evening in the nation’s busiest death chamber. [About 30 minutes before the execution of Oliver David Cruz] Brian Keith Roberson, condemned for the 1986 stabbing deaths of an elderly couple who lived across the street from him in Dallas, was executed. Smiling and defiant to the end, Roberson, 36, lashed out at family members and police officers who testified against him at his trial. “You ain’t got what you want,” he said. He then said he wanted to tell all the “racist white folks that hate blacks” and all the “black folks who hate themselves” that in the words of his brother Nat Turner, “You all can kiss by black a**. I’m ready. Let’s go. I’ll see you when you get there.” Roberson then said goodbye to his family members and died at 6:17 p.m. CDT, five minutes after the lethal drug cocktail was injected.
He lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court by a 7-2 vote earlier Wednesday. “This has brought closure to this grim and gruesome situation,” said Randy Fleming, grandson of Roberson’s victims, and one of the people who watched Roberson die. Roberson’s twin brother, Bruce, who also watched the execution, was critical of Gov. George W. Bush but said he was going to party Wednesday night. “When God comes, he’s going to kick ass and take names,” Bruce Roberson said. “And justice system: You can kiss my a**.” The back-to-back lethal injections were the first multiple executions in Texas since June 1997 and marked the third time since capital punishment resumed in the state in 1982 that more than one inmate was executed in one day.